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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 Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Ben Hecht

by Lewis Beach, Alice Gerstenberg, Edward Goodman, Philip Moeller

by Jim Kjelgaard

by Harry Leon Wilson

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Jennette Lee

by William Dean Howells

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

by Burt L. Standish

by Epes Sargent

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by S. S. Van Dine

by Bret Harte

by Grace Brooks Hill

by Carolyn Wells

by Eleanor Gates

by Bret Harte

by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

by Anna Katharine Green

by Jr. John Fox

by George Madden Martin

by Albert Payson Terhune

by Carolyn Wells

by Montague Glass

by Edgar Saltus

by Harry Leon Wilson

by William J. (William James) Flynn

by Will Lillibridge

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Heman White Chaplin

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Frances Little

by Margaret Hill McCarter

by Allen French

by Robert Montgomery Bird

by Robert Shackleton, L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden, William Drysdale, G. A. Forsyth, John Habberton, William J. Henderson, Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie, Howard Patterson

by Mayne Reid

by Laura Lee Hope

by Josephine Chase

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Lucy S. Furman

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Blanche Upright

by Albert W. Aiken

by Arthur Colton

by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Anna Katharine Green

by B. M. Bower

by DuBose Heyward, Hervey Allen

by Elsie Singmaster

by Geraldine Bonner

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Edwina Stanton Babcock

by Pansy

by E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means

by Kirk Munroe

by Eugene O'Neill

by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

by Anna Katharine Green

by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by Leroy Scott

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh

by James Otis

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Irving Bacheller

by Cora Marsland

by Roy Norton

by Richard Harding Davis

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by W. C. Morrow

by Martha Finley

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by Zane Grey

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Bret Harte

by Leona Dalrymple

by Ray Cummings

by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

by Clara Louise Burnham

by Hamlin Garland

by Laura Lee Hope

by L. (Lily) Dougall