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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 Hamlin Garland

by Laura Lee Hope

by Byron A. (Byron Archibald) Dunn

by Various Authors

by Stephen Vincent Benét, Avery Hopwood, Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Dana Gatlin

by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

by Francis Lynde

by Edwin Lefevre

by Harold Frederic

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by American Tract Society

by Emma Wolf

by Paul Leicester Ford

by Emily Hahn

by Frank Norris

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Bill Nye

by Brander Matthews

by Victor Appleton

by William Dean Howells

by Washington Irving, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Samuel Merwin, Henry Kitchell Webster

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Winston Churchill

by Meredith Nicholson

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Finley Peter Dunne

by Ethel Hueston

by Richard Harding Davis

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by George Alfred Townsend

by Randall Garrett

by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Howard Vincent O'Brien

by Jane Abbott

by Henry Harland

by Hugh McAlister

by Bret Harte

by Richard Harding Davis

by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

by Bret Harte

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Helen Hunt Jackson

by Gregory Casparian

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Edith Wharton

by Francis Worcester Doughty

by Victor Appleton

by Kate Langley Bosher

by Charles Nordhoff

by Henry Harland

by Mary Austin

by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

by Frederic Stewart Isham

by Clarence Edward Mulford

by Jackson Gregory

by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

by Frederic Arnold Kummer

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Kenneth McGaffey

by Alice Duer Miller

by Brander Matthews

by Mark Twain

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Waldron Kintzing Post

by Kirk Munroe

by Frederick Orin Bartlett

by Francis Lynde

by Maude Alma

by Richard Harding Davis

by Amy Bell Marlowe

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Michael Fitzgerald

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Edward Eggleston

by Alex. St. Clair (Alexander St. Clair) Abrams

by Will Rogers

by Opie Percival Read

by Kate Langley Bosher

by John D. (John Dann) MacDonald