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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 Robert Nathan

by Burt L. Standish

by Winston Churchill

by Alice Duer Miller

by Margaret Pollock Sherwood

by Honoré Morrow

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

by Damon Knight

by Winston Churchill

by George L. Aiken

by Caroline Abbot Stanley

by Aunt Fanny

by Edith K. (Edith Kellogg) Dunton

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Eldridge B. (Eldridge Burwell) Hatcher

by Robert F. Young

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

by Hallie Erminie Rives

by William Hamilton Osborne

by Winston Churchill

by Yates Stirling

by Frank Norris

by Sherwood Anderson

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by Adolfo Rossi

by Jean Webster

by B. M. Bower

by Harold Bell Wright

by Amédée Bouis

by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

by Charles Amory Beach

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by Pansy

by John Trotwood Moore

by Honoré Morrow

by Anna Fuller

by Dell H. Munger

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Eugene Walter, Arthur Hornblow

by Fannie Belle Irving

by Murray Leinster

by Lemuel Ely Quigg

by Charles King

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Henry David Thoreau

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Gertrude Stein

by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Robert Frost

by Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs, Edyth Ellerbeck Read

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Jules Verne

by Brand Whitlock

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Bret Harte

by Lyn Venable

by Edna Worthley Underwood

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Margaret Fuller

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by James Russell Lowell

by Ruth Plumly Thompson

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Edgar Allan Poe

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Willis George Emerson

by George Santayana

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Bret Harte

by Warren H. (Warren Hastings) Miller

by Washington Irving

by Ambrose Bierce

by Garet Garrett

by Theodore Dreiser

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Henry Morford

by Ben Hecht

by Stanley Waterloo

by Francis Lynde

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Basil King

by Honoré Morrow

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by Christopher Morley

by Temple Bailey