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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 Emily Neville

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Marjorie Benton Cooke

by Charles King

by Louisa May Alcott

by Kenneth Ward

by Jack London

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by Sophie May

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Percy Holmes Boynton

by Herman Melville

by Zane Grey

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

by Julian Street

by Horace Elisha Scudder

by Washington Irving

by Louis Joseph Vance

by Robert Frost

by Henry David Thoreau

by Herman Melville

by Edwin Lefevre

by Albert Payson Terhune

by William Dudley Pelley

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Martha Finley

by Louis Tracy

by Upton Sinclair

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Catharine Esther Beecher

by Marie Van Vorst

by Frank Norris

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by T. S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling

by Jack London

by Harold Bell Wright

by Will Carleton

by Owen Johnson

by Eliza Leslie

by Marjorie Benton Cooke

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by Various Authors

by Inez Haynes Gillmore

by William MacLeod Raine

by Martha Griffith Browne

by James Weldon Johnson

by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

by Stewart Edward White

by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

by Eugene Wood

by Bayard Taylor

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by James Branch Cabell

by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by B. M. Bower

by B. M. Bower

by Edwin Lefevre

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Edgar Saltus

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Temple Bailey

by Alice Ames Winter

by John R. (John Roy) Musick

by Laura Lee Hope

by James Otis

by Franklin W. Dixon

by Don Marquis

by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

by John Jay Chapman

by Mark Twain

by Carolyn Wells

by Bret Harte

by Carolyn Wells

by Francis Perry Elliott

by John Dos Passos

by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

by Winston Churchill

by Edward Eggleston

by Willis George Emerson

by Montrose Jonas Moses

by Dillon Wallace

by Edwin Lefevre

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by Irving Bacheller

by Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger

by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin

by Cosmo Hamilton

by Meredith Nicholson

by Kate Langley Bosher

by Various Authors

by Marion Ames Taggart