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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 Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by Heman White Chaplin

by Various Authors

by Edgar Fawcett

by Frederic Arnold Kummer

by Various Authors

by Carroll Watson Rankin

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by Booth Tarkington

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Noah Brooks

by Frank Andrew Munsey

by Ambrose Bierce

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Willard F. Baker

by Joseph Rhode Grismer, Lottie Blair Parker

by Ruth Plumly Thompson

by Randall Parrish

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Various Authors

by John Ames Mitchell

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Florence Finch Kelly

by Caroline Emilia Jacobs

by Amy D. V. Chalmers

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Julie M. Lippmann

by Helen Beecher Long

by Edward Streeter

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Harriet Pyne Grove

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Victor Appleton

by Philip Verrill Mighels

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Opie Percival Read

by Lester Chadwick

by Edward Bellamy

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Plattsburgh Barracks (N.Y.)

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by Arlo Bates

by Margaret Vandercook

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Walter Aimwell

by William Alexander Caruthers

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Charles King

by Evelyn E. Smith

by Mark Twain

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Martha Finley

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

by Richard Savage

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Carolyn Wells

by James Otis

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by A. S. (Azel Stevens) Roe

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by James Lane Allen

by Frank Fowler

by Harry Castlemon

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Louisa May Alcott

by Francis Lynde

by Nelson Lloyd

by Countee Cullen

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

by Frank Lewis Nason

by William Drysdale

by August Derleth

by Mary Imlay Taylor
by Various Authors

by Charles Battell Loomis

by Holworthy Hall

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Frederick Vining Fisher

by Luis Senarens

by R. H. (Robert Hoskins) Crozier

by Grace Livingston Hill, Edith M. Nicholl

by Augusta Huiell Seaman

by Louis Tracy

by Florence Morse Kingsley

by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Christopher Morley

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Ruth Sawyer