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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 Zona Gale

by John Habberton

by Susan Warner

by Susan Warner

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Albert W. Aiken

by Frederick Landis

by Joan Clark

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Alexander Black

by Kirk Munroe

by Frank V. Webster

by Martha Finley

by Henry Wallace Phillips

by Winston Churchill

by David Graham Phillips

by Lettie Artley Irons

by Winston Churchill

by J. B. (James Ball) Naylor

by Katharine Haviland-Taylor

by Winston Churchill

by Elsie Singmaster

by Winston Churchill

by Ike Swift

by Lloyd Osbourne

by Helen Topping Miller

by Max Brand

by Emma Speed Sampson

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Frank M. Robinson

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson
by James Fenimore Cooper

by Jack London

by William R. (William Reynolds) Eyster

by Burt L. Standish

by William Heyliger

by Upton Sinclair

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Josephine Chase

by Earl H. (Earl Howell) Reed

by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

by Winston Churchill

by Mark Twain

by Jerome Bixby

by Julia Farr

by Jack London

by Jack London

by Anna Chapin Ray

by Eliot H. (Eliot Harlow) Robinson

by Ridgwell Cullum

by Allen French

by Holman Day

by Bannister Merwin

by Carolyn Wells

by Ruth McEnery Stuart

by Clara Ingram Judson

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Charles Carleton Coffin

by George Madden Martin

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Gertrude Stein

by F. B. (Franklin Benjamin) Sanborn

by Fritz Leiber

by Robert Lee Durham

by Henry Childs Merwin

by Roy Chapman Andrews, Yvette Borup Andrews

by William Nelson Taft

by Mark Twain

by John Hall Wheelock

by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

by James Huneker

by Will Levington Comfort

by Marie Conway Oemler

by Eleanor Gates

by Katharine Yirsa Reynolds

by Winston Churchill

by George Gibbs

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Winston Churchill

by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

by Grace MacGowan Cooke, Anne McQueen

by Various Authors

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Slason Thompson

by Alice Brown

by Opie Percival Read

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Margaret Hill McCarter
by YonΓ© Noguchi

by David Graham Phillips