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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 Milan C. (Milan Chappel) Edson

by Ray Bradbury

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

by Geraldine Bonner

by Various Authors

by George Cary Eggleston

by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Winston Stokes

by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

by Eugene Field

by Cosmo Hamilton

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Gertrude Stein

by Frank R. Stockton

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Julie M. Lippmann

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by Fran Striker

by George Washington Cable

by Julian Hawthorne

by Harry Castlemon

by Meredith Nicholson

by Gertrude Hall Brownell

by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Randall Parrish

by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

by Paul Thorne, Mabel Thorne

by Charles Franklin Carter

by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

by Laura Jean Libbey

by Lily Munsell Ritchie

by Alice B. Emerson

by Holman Day

by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

by Mary S. (Mary Stanbery) Watts

by Raymond S. (Raymond Smiley) Spears

by Elsie Singmaster

by Sewell Ford

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Charles Clark Munn

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Virginia Watson

by Amy Ella Blanchard

by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

by Augusta Huiell Seaman

by Sara Jeannette Duncan

by Beulah Marie Dix

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Sinclair Lewis

by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

by Vaughan Kester

by Hiram Chase

by Margaret Vandercook

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Helen Diehl Olds

by Arthur Preston Hankins

by Captain Adam Seaborn

by Margaret Vandercook

by Don Marquis

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Arlo Bates

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by Various Authors

by E. Werner

by George Madden Martin

by George Bird Grinnell

by Annie Hamilton Donnell

by John Burroughs

by Kirk Munroe

by John Taintor Foote

by Nell Speed

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Charles Fenno Hoffman

by Ruth McEnery Stuart

by John McGovern

by Dane Coolidge

by Victor Appleton

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Various Authors

by Louise Jordan Miln