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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 Marietta Holley

by Mark Twain

by Hezekiah Butterworth

by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Margaret Prescott Montague

by Frederick Whittaker

by P. T. Raymond

by B. M. Bower

by Margaret Penrose

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by John Arch Morrison

by Harry Castlemon

by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

by Shirley Barker

by Nathalia Crane

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh

by Washington Irving

by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee

by Stephen Marlowe

by John D. (John Daniel) Barry

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Winston Churchill

by Oll Coomes

by Willis Boyd Allen

by Will H. Grattan

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Harry Castlemon

by Octave Thanet

by Mary Virginia Wall

by Frederic Jesup Stimson

by William Henry Venable

by Mrs. Burton Harrison

by Louisa May Alcott

by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

by Mae M. Franking, Katherine Anne Porter

by Henry Leverage

by Burt L. Standish

by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

by Helen Topping Miller

by Frank M. Robinson

by Robert Scott

by Roy Norton

by Rupert Hughes

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Wadsworth Camp

by George Fitch

by Owen Wister

by Henry James

by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

by James R. Driscoll

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Henry Blake Fuller

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Upton Sinclair

by Marietta Holley

by George Looms

by Mary Heaton Vorse

by Henry David Thoreau

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Edith Wharton

by William Cullen Bryant

by Edgar Pangborn

by Jack London

by O. Henry

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Herman Melville

by Philip Morin Freneau

by Irving Bacheller

by Slason Thompson

by Bret Harte

by Mark Twain

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Fitz James O'Brien

by Mary Elizabeth Phillips

by Mark Twain

by Lilian Bell

by Chester Milton Sanford, Grace Arlington Owen

by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Florence Morse Kingsley

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Grace Miller White

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Marietta Holley

by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

by James Russell Lowell

by Russell H. Conwell