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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 John Habberton

by Mayne Reid

by Edna Ferber

by Anna Balmer Myers

by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Jack London

by Maud Wilder Goodwin

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Harold Frederic

by Everett McNeil

by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Adeline Trafton

by Mercy Otis Warren

by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

by William Cullen Bryant

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Amelia Stratton Comfield

by Joyce Kilmer

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Allan Pinkerton

by Robert Neilson Stephens

by Robert Alexander Wason

by Clarence Edward Mulford

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by William Carlos Williams

by Francis Lynde

by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

by Ella Rodman Church

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by George Barr McCutcheon

by David Grayson

by Willard F. Baker

by Alice Brown

by George Washington Cable

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Cyrus Townsend Brady

by Willa Cather

by Mrs. Humphry Ward

by Margaret Piper Chalmers

by Francis Lynde

by David Ross Locke

by Don Marquis

by Samuel Merwin

by William Rounseville Alger, Jr. Horatio Alger

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Elizabeth Robins

by Clara Ingram Judson

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

by Helen Beecher Long

by William MacLeod Raine

by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

by Emma C. Dowd

by George Thompson

by Frances Nimmo Greene

by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Kelley

by Will James

by James Otis

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Zona Gale

by Emerson Bennett

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Edward Eggleston

by J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton) Chase

by Richard Harding Davis

by Bret Harte

by Claude C. (Claude Carlos) Washburn

by Lester Chadwick

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Frederik Pohl

by Charles Dana Gibson

by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by Jr. Horatio Alger, Edward Stratemeyer

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Helen Hunt Jackson

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Upton Sinclair

by Mark Twain

by Belle Kanaris Maniates

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by B. M. Bower

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Reginald Wright Kauffman

by James R. Driscoll

by William Dean Howells

by Harriet A. (Harriet Anna) Cheever

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard