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Step into a landscape as vast and restless as the nation itself, where riverboys and runaways, dreamers and dissenters, pioneers and phantoms all chase freedom in their own unforgettable ways. From the wild pull of frontier woods to the hush of haunted villages, from Civil War battlefields to strange kingdoms just beyond the ordinary, this bookshelf captures the bold, questioning, fiercely imaginative spirit of American literature. These are stories that built myths, challenged consciences, and still echo like a voice carried on the wind.

by E. Pauline Johnson

by Edmund Lester Pearson

by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene

by Edward Payson Roe

by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

by Emma Speed Sampson

by Mary Jane Holmes

by James Otis

by Philip Verrill Mighels

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Elbert Hubbard

by James Fenimore Cooper

by John Morley

by Mark Twain

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Arlo Bates

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Oliver Optic

by Florence Finch Kelly

by Francis Worcester Doughty

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

by Mark Twain

by Francis Lynde

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Augusta Huiell Seaman

by Stephen Angus Douglas Cox

by Sewell Ford

by Josephine Chase

by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

by Josephine Lawrence

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Arthur Colton

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Marie Van Vorst

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Allan Danzig

by Eugene Field

by Laura Lee Hope

by Stephen Graham, Vachel Lindsay

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Edith Lavell

by Frank Lewis Nason

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

by C. C. (Charles Carroll) Goodwin

by Lilian Garis

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by James Lane Allen

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by James Otis

by Prentiss Ingraham

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Myrtle Reed

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Harry Castlemon

by Elijah Kellogg

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by John Kendrick Bangs

by William Theophilus Nichols

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Leigh Brackett

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Maurice Thompson

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Winston Churchill

by Meredith Nicholson

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

by Ebenezer Wheelwright

by Katharine Newlin Burt

by Temple Bailey

by Hulbert Footner

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

by Murray Leinster

by Lucille Van Slyke

by Donald Ferguson

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by William Dean Howells

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith

by Winston Churchill

by Bret Harte

by Various Authors

by Winston Churchill

by Jerry Sohl

by James R. Driscoll

by Theodore Parker

by William Dean Howells

by Richard Harding Davis

by Richard Harding Davis

by Robert Nathan