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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 L. (Lily) Dougall

by B. M. Bower

by Harry Castlemon

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

by Edmund Lester Pearson

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

by Louisa May Alcott

by Josephine Chase

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Francis Worcester Doughty

by Louisa May Alcott

by Prentiss Ingraham

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by William Dean Howells

by Mark Twain

by W. H. (William Henry) Shelton

by Nephi Anderson

by Howard Roger Garis

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Frank V. Webster

by Theodore Dreiser

by Idah Meacham Strobridge

by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Burt L. Standish

by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

by B. M. Bower

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins

by James R. Driscoll

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Frank M. Robinson

by William Dean Howells

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Zona Gale

by Ethel Hueston

by Alice Calhoun Haines

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

by Chester S. Geier

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Florence Morse Kingsley

by Maro O. (Maro Orlando) Rolfe

by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh

by John Bennett

by James Otis
by Crittenden Marriott

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by John Reed Scott

by Hannah Adams, Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee

by Maxwell Bodenheim

by Maurice Thompson

by Charles Sheldon French

by Winston Churchill

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

by Graham M. Dean

by Francis Lynde

by L. A. (Lydia Austin) Holdich

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Louisa May Alcott

by Emma C. Dowd

by Homer Greene

by Harry Castlemon

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Bret Harte

by George M. (George Melville) Baker

by Elizabeth G. Young

by Thomas Beer

by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

by Winston Churchill

by Will H. Thompson

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Lurana Sheldon

by Zane Grey

by Jack London

by Sewell Ford

by Holman Day

by Marjorie Benton Cooke

by Louise Manly

by Isaac Newton Stevens

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

by Hezekiah Butterworth

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Silas K. Boone

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Finley Peter Dunne

by Kate Percival

by Henry David Thoreau