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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 Harriet Beecher Stowe

by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

by Henry Cleveland Wood

by Joslyn Gray

by Stella G. S. (Stella George Stern) Perry

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) Gardener

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Donald A. Wollheim

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Various Authors

by Jane Abbott

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Edgar Franklin

by Edward C. Taylor

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by George A. (George Alexander) Kyle

by Gilbert W. (Gilbert Wolf) Gabriel

by Grace May North

by Mark Twain

by Martha Finley

by Charles D. (Charles David) Stewart

by Edith Ferguson Black

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Bret Harte

by Wadsworth Camp

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Various Authors

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Katharine Newlin Burt

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

by Mark Twain

by Edith Keeley Stokely, Marian Hurd McNeely

by Earl Peirce

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Lucia True Ames Mead

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Chuck Connors

by Mark Twain

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Frederick Palmer

by Irving Bacheller

by Carroll Watson Rankin

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Edison Marshall

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Margaret Wilson

by Marietta Holley

by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Ethel Lynn

by Brand Whitlock

by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins

by Orrick Johns

by Marietta Holley

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, C. C. (Charles Carey) Waddell

by Henry Herbert Knibbs

by Alice Duer Miller

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Bertram Lebhar

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by B. M. Bower

by Zane Grey

by Josephine Chase

by Hal G. (Hal George) Evarts

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by J. Saunders (Jay Saunders) Redding

by Charles Ledyard Norton, John Habberton

by Lorimer Stoddard

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Margaret Penrose

by Winston Churchill

by Charles A. Gunnison

by Max Brand

by Oliver Optic

by Meredith Nicholson

by Rowland Wright

by E. (Edward) Marston

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Albert W. Aiken

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

by Edith K. (Edith Kellogg) Dunton

by Randall Parrish

by Eleanor Gates

by D. (Dietrich) Lange

by Meredith Nicholson

by Burt L. Standish

by Kate Langley Bosher