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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 Harry Castlemon

by Winston Churchill

by William W. Walter

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by William Ingraham Russell

by James A. Cooper

by Kirk Munroe

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Logan Pearsall Smith

by Elsie Singmaster

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum, Emma Speed Sampson

by Homer Greene

by Will Levington Comfort

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Walt Whitman

by William Carlos Williams

by Spencer Dair

by Charles M. Sheldon

by Harry Castlemon

by Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor Astor

by Robert Herrick

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Richard Harding Davis

by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

by Margaret Penrose

by Elijah Kellogg

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Artemus Ward

by William D. (William David) Moffat

by Maxwell Bodenheim

by Harry Castlemon

by Charles Macomb Flandrau

by Julie M. Lippmann

by Various Authors

by Robert F. Young

by Ella Higginson

by Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Mark Twain

by Henning Berger

by Mrs. M. A. Pittock

by Burt L. Standish

by Edward G. (Edward Gheen) Cheyney

by Burt L. Standish

by Lucy S. Furman

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by Kristofer Janson

by Jack London

by Jean Webster

by Jack London

by Arthur Hornblow

by Herman Melville

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Edward Ziegler Davis

by Charles B. (Charles Barney) Cory

by Amy Bell Marlowe

by Credo Fitch Harris

by Oliver Optic

by Hugh Wiley

by Various Authors

by Edwin Watts Chubb

by Frank R. Stockton

by Meredith Nicholson

by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

by Walt Whitman

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Captain James Carson

by William MacLeod Raine

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

by Various Authors

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray

by Herman Melville

by Fred Lewis Pattee

by Willa Cather

by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert

by Edith Wharton

by Maud Howe Elliott

by Denton Loring Geyer

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Lilian Whiting

by Holman Day

by Jim Kjelgaard

by Howard Washington Odum, Guy Benton Johnson

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by Henry James

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by Philip K. Dick

by Upton Sinclair

by Margaret Hill McCarter