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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 Various Authors

by Grace Miller White

by Richard Harding Davis

by Richard Harding Davis

by George Hartmann

by James Raymond Elderdice

by Jr. John Fox

by Wyn Roosevelt

by James Lane Allen

by Emerson Hough

by Glenna Lindsley Bigelow

by Edward Noyes Westcott

by George Parsons Lathrop

by William John Hopkins

by Irving Bacheller

by Marion Ames Taggart

by Joel Chandler Harris

by James Otis

by Margaret Sidney

by Sarah Bell Hackley

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Josephine Chase

by Harlan Ellison

by Booth Tarkington

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

by Harry Castlemon

by William Dean Howells

by Mary Lowell Putnam

by Jackson Gregory

by Grace Brooks Hill

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Oliver Optic

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Elijah Kellogg

by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Marion) Vaile

by Various Authors

by Gouverneur Morris

by Edward Bellamy

by Mary Jane Holmes

by James Otis

by Ray Bradbury

by Various Authors

by Bertrand W. Sinclair

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by Helen Hunt Jackson

by Clarence Young

by Henry Leverage

by Sara Teasdale

by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Clarence Darrow

by Lester Chadwick

by Mark Twain

by Sewell Ford

by Edward Payson Roe

by Lester Chadwick

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Gertrude W. Morrison

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Charles Alden Seltzer

by Oliver Optic

by Matthew M. Colton

by James Oppenheim

by Walt Mason

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Johnston McCulley

by Will Levington Comfort

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston

by Isabel Anderson

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by William Murray Graydon

by George Barr McCutcheon

by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

by Lester Chadwick

by Avis A. Burnham Stanwood

by Martha Finley

by Montgomery Schuyler

by Nathaniel Parker Willis

by Edith Ferguson Black

by Jacob Abbott

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Rossiter Johnson

by James Otis

by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

by Cleo F. Garis

by Mary Austin

by Luis Senarens

by Harry Castlemon

by Zona Gale

by Edith K. (Edith Kellogg) Dunton

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by George Thompson

by Susan Fenimore Cooper