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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 George William Curtis

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Walter White

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb, James Oliver Curwood, Edna Ferber, Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne, Meredith Nicholson, H. C. (Harry Charles) Witwer

by Josephine Chase

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Oliver Optic

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Sherwood Anderson

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by Margaret Sidney

by Zane Grey

by Mark Twain

by Willa Cather

by Louisa May Alcott

by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

by Ignatius Donnelly

by Booth Tarkington

by Ridgwell Cullum

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Mark Twain

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Upton Sinclair

by Charles Neville Buck

by Kate Trimble Sharber

by Frank V. Webster

by Martha Finley

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by William Dean Howells

by Luis Senarens

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Jean Webster

by O. Henry

by John Muir

by O. Henry

by Marshall Saunders

by Edith Wharton

by Harry Leon Wilson

by Owen Wister

by Leona A. (Leona Alford) Malek

by Edna Ferber

by Jack London

by James De Mille

by Upton Sinclair

by Elizabeth Stoddard

by Laura Lee Hope

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Mark Twain

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Edward Stratemeyer

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Henry James

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Willa Cather

by Francis Lynde

by George Parsons Lathrop

by Harry Leon Wilson

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Martha Finley

by Mark Twain

by Harold Bell Wright

by William Dean Howells

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Lucien Price

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Edison Marshall

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

by Hulbert Footner

by Winston Churchill

by Lynn Riggs

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Ambrose Bierce

by Herman Melville

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Louisa May Alcott

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by Mark Twain

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Emma Lazarus

by James Fenimore Cooper

by William Dean Howells

by Zane Grey

by Zane Grey

by Sara Teasdale

by Angelo Hall

by James Cowan

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Jr. Thomas Dixon