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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 Caroline Louise Marshall

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Annie Eliot Trumbull

by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

by Harold MacGrath

by Mary Gardiner Horsford

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Lionel Lounsberry

by Various Authors

by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Alice B. Emerson

by Sarah L. Barrow

by Dallas Lore Sharp

by William Dean Howells

by Florence Morse Kingsley

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Helen Fuller Orton

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Inez Haynes Gillmore

by Charles King

by David F. Dorr

by Lucia Chamberlain

by Robert Herrick

by Keith Laumer

by Frank R. Stockton

by Minnie Mary Lee

by Mark Twain

by Thomas Nelson Page

by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

by Anonymous

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Fritz Leiber

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Margaret Sutton

by James Lane Allen

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Joan Clark

by William O. Stoddard

by Raymond F. Jones

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Emerson Hough

by Martha Finley

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

by William O. Stoddard

by Martha Morton
by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

by Edith Wharton

by Jerry Sohl

by Chelsea Curtis Fraser

by Burt L. Standish

by Frances Little

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston

by John Maxwell Forbes

by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

by Various Authors

by Anne Reeve Aldrich

by Margaret Sutton

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Mark Twain

by Dorothy Parker

by Basil King

by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

by Joaquin Miller

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Eliza Buckminster Lee

by Charles Dana Gibson

by Samuel Adams Drake

by Anne Warner

by George Cary Eggleston

by Booth Tarkington

by Prentiss Ingraham

by Helen Leah Reed

by Bronson Howard

by Porter Emerson Browne

by Harry Castlemon

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

by Johnston McCulley

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Opie Percival Read

by Charles Macomb Flandrau

by Elmer Haslett

by Prentiss Ingraham

by Charles M. Sheldon

by Donald E. Westlake