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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 Carolyn Wells

by Helen M. (Helen Maria) Winslow

by Stewart Edward White

by Ambrose Bierce

by Ward Moore

by Herman Melville

by Stuart Brent

by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell

by Jack London

by Bill Nye

by Joel Chandler Harris

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by Edgar Allan Poe

by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Hamlin Garland

by Jack London

by William Cullen Bryant

by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

by Richard Savage

by John Dos Passos

by Ambrose Bierce

by Nathaniel Parker Willis

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Ambrose Bierce

by David Graham Phillips

by Mary Johnston

by Edna Ferber

by Mark Twain

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by William Dean Howells

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by B. M. Bower

by Mark Twain

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Josephine Clifford McCrackin

by Theodore Dreiser

by William Dean Howells

by Bill Nye

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Ezra Pound

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

by William Dean Howells

by Caroline Lockhart

by Bret Harte

by Claude McKay

by John McElroy

by Anna Katharine Green

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Mary Jane Holmes

by William MacLeod Raine

by Hamlin Garland

by Charles Heber Clark

by Jane Abbott

by William MacLeod Raine

by S. S. Van Dine

by Lawrence Gilman

by Margaret Mayo

by Grace May North

by Anonymous

by Donald Grant Mitchell

by James Whitcomb Riley

by John Hay

by Frederic Jesup Stimson

by Kirk Munroe

by Anzia Yezierska

by Charles Neville Buck

by Edward Robins

by William Dean Howells

by Meredith Nicholson

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by George Ade

by Mark Twain

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Thomas Fitch, Anna M. (Anna Mariska) Fitch

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by Charles Klein, Arthur Hornblow

by Ambrose Bierce

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means

by Hugh S. (Hugh Stuart) Fullerton

by Frances Parkinson Keyes

by Nell Speed

by Arthur Preston Hankins

by May Byron

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Albert Ross

by Charles Klein

by Fannie Hurst

by Annie Hamilton Donnell

by Nathaniel Hawthorne