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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 Robert Grant

by George Agnew Chamberlain

by Thomas Nelson Page

by George Frederic Turner

by Morrison Heady

by Belle Kanaris Maniates

by William MacLeod Raine

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Paul Leicester Ford

by Wilbur Finley Fauley

by Anna Katharine Green

by William Banks

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Arthur Gleason

by Mary Finley Leonard

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Oliver Optic

by Henry Blake Fuller

by Various Authors

by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Clara Louise Burnham

by Rutherford G. (Rutherford George) Montgomery

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Nellie Bly

by James Otis

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

by Willa Cather

by James Otis

by Frederick Orin Bartlett

by Ben Ames Williams

by William MacLeod Raine

by Joseph Rocchietti

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins, A. L. Small

by Edwin Markham

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Edward Payson Roe

by Kate Langley Bosher

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Mary Ann Mann Cornelius

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston

by Julie M. Lippmann

by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Opie Percival Read

by Evelyn Raymond

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by Margaret Vandercook

by Margaret Culkin Banning

by James Otis

by George Waldo Browne
by Harry Castlemon

by Witter Bynner

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by Kate Langley Bosher

by St. George Rathborne

by Richard Savage

by Alan Edward Nourse

by Carolyn Wells

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

by Sidney Lanier

by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre

by David Belasco

by Ernest Poole

by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

by Jesse Lynch Williams

by Burt L. Standish

by Various Authors

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by Claude C. (Claude Carlos) Washburn

by Clara Louise Burnham

by Mark Twain

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

by Belle Willey Gue

by Clyde Fitch

by Margaret Collier Graham

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Various Authors

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Emerson Hough

by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

by Marietta Holley

by Yates Stirling

by Charles Alden Seltzer

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Harry Castlemon

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Jennette Lee

by Hamilton Wright Mabie