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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 Brudy

by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

by Anna Katharine Green

by Ellen Douglas Deland

by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Emerson Hough

by Sarah Knowles Bolton

by William Dean Howells

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Freeman) Comfort

by Elliott Blaine Henderson

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Anna Chapin Ray

by Andrew Dearborn

by Caroline Emilia Jacobs

by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

by Aline Havard

by Cornelia Meigs

by George Waldo Browne

by Various Authors

by Louise Élise Gibbons

by Halsey Davidson

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Margarita Spalding Gerry

by Henry Leverage

by Harold Frederic

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Stewart Edward White

by Edgar Pangborn

by Alice MacGowan

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Jack London

by Christian Reid

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by L. P. (Levi Parker) Wyman

by Melvin E. (Melvin Earnest) Trotter

by Wilder Goodwin

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Edmund K. Goldsborough

by Charles Neville Buck

by Hulbert Footner

by T. Howard (Thomas Howard) Kelly

by B. M. Bower

by David W. (David William) Edwards

by Jack London

by M.D. Alexander Robertson

by Upton Sinclair

by Jack London

by Donn Byrne

by Oliver Optic

by Katharine Newlin Burt

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Burt L. Standish

by Caroline Lockhart

by Ruth Sawyer

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan

by Sara Ware Bassett

by Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young

by Louisa May Alcott

by Various Authors

by Oliver Optic

by Hamlin Garland

by Caroline Lee Hentz

by Various Authors

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by Willa Cather

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Kathleen Thompson Norris

by Clarence Edward Mulford, John Wood Clay

by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

by Henry James

by Lawrence Perry

by Eugene O'Neill

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Heywood Broun

by Mark Lee Luther

by John McElroy

by Pictorial Photographers of America

by Zane Grey

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Victor Appleton

by T. R. Fehrenbach

by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

by Charles Macomb Flandrau

by Emerson Hough
by Conrad Aiken

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by Ambrose Bierce

by Jim Kjelgaard

by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Jr. John Fox