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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 Charles Dudley Warner

by Richard Harding Davis

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by William O. Stoddard

by Earle Ashley Walcott

by Oscar Micheaux

by William Sloane Kennedy

by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

by William Allen White

by Booth Tarkington

by Carroll Watson Rankin

by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

by Thornton Wilder

by Anna Katharine Green

by Charles Felton Pidgin

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Owen Johnson

by Stanford Eveleth

by Laura Lee Hope

by Randall Parrish

by Frank R. Stockton

by Anna Katharine Green

by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

by Bret Harte

by Miriam Coles Harris

by Mark Twain

by John Williams Streeter

by Various Authors

by Bertrand W. Sinclair

by Various Authors

by Richard Harding Davis

by Nalbro Bartley

by Margaret Widdemer

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by William MacHarg, Edwin Balmer

by Charles King

by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

by Don Marquis

by E. J. Rath

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Various Authors

by Alan Dale

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Eustace Hale Ball

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Mark Twain

by Mary Griffith

by Burt L. Standish

by Various Authors

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Clarence Young

by Helen Reimensnyder Martin

by Parker Fillmore

by Daniel Carter Beard

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Robert Fitzgerald

by Ray Bradbury

by Vachel Lindsay

by E. E. (Emma Elizabeth) Brown

by Lincoln Colcord

by Mary Ashley Townsend

by Finley Peter Dunne

by Donald Grant Mitchell

by Alice Brown

by Irving Bacheller

by Various Authors

by Charles King

by Frederick Orin Bartlett

by Various Authors

by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

by John R. (John Roy) Musick

by Charles King

by B. M. Bower

by Jr. John Fox

by Emma Speed Sampson

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Gustave Aimard

by Nathaniel Gordon

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Samuel Goldwyn

by Barack Obama

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Stephen Crane

by Robert Sidney Bowen

by Edith Wharton

by Harold Bell Wright

by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

by Charles Fenno Hoffman

by Various Authors

by Oliver Optic

by Dorothy C. (Dorothy Charlotte) Paine

by C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson