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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 Martha Finley

by Cyrus Townsend Brady

by Alice B. Emerson

by Max Brand

by Laura Lee Hope

by Honoré Morrow

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Meredith Nicholson

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Inez Haynes Gillmore

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by Edwin Herbert Lewis

by Lilian Bell

by Marshall Saunders

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Edith Wharton

by Booth Tarkington

by Meredith Nicholson

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Josephine Chase

by John Ayscough

by William Dean Howells

by Henry Sydnor Harrison

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Josephine Chase

by Martha Finley

by Lurana Sheldon

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

by Martha Finley

by William Dean Howells

by Nehemiah Adams

by Frank R. Stockton

by Marietta Holley

by Fitz James O'Brien

by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Harold Frederic

by James Otis

by Julia A. Moore

by Theodore Goodridge Roberts

by Meredith Nicholson

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Edward Payson Roe

by Howard Roger Garis

by Edward Payson Roe

by Charles M. Sheldon

by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin

by Elizabeth Gerberding

by Dorothy Parker, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams

by Henry James

by Caroline Atwater Mason

by William Dean Howells

by George H. (George Henry) Smith

by Wellington Scott

by Henry Farrell

by Frank V. Webster

by Elizabeth Stoddard

by Hal G. (Hal George) Evarts

by Will Levington Comfort

by W. Crispin (William Crispin) Sheppard

by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger

by Robert Silverberg

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Oliver Bell Bunce

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Elsie Singmaster

by Captain James Carson

by Burt L. Standish

by Harry Castlemon

by Carolyn Wells

by Carolyn Wells

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Benjamin Rush Davenport

by James Jackson

by Grace May North

by Mary Austin

by Mark Twain

by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Hugh Pendexter

by Stella Benson

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Burt L. Standish

by Hulbert Footner

by Bryce Walton

by Jack London

by Jack London

by Jack London

by Kate Chopin

by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

by Jean Webster

by Owen Johnson

by Edward Eggleston

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Charles Neville Buck

by Oliver Optic

by Emily Neville