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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 Henry Adams

by Emerson Hough

by Lester Chadwick

by Harry Castlemon

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by Josephine Chase

by Robert Grant

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Bret Harte

by Carolyn Wells

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by Allen Chapman

by Howard Roger Garis

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by Laura Jean Libbey

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Susan Warner

by A. F. (Ashbel Fairchild) Hill

by St. George Rathborne

by Charles King

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Robert Herrick

by Carolyn Wells

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

by John Philip Sousa

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by O. Henry

by Howard Pyle

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Jennette Lee

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

by Sophie May

by Christy Mathewson

by Anne Warner

by Carolyn Wells

by Nina Rhoades

by Frank R. Stockton

by Anne Warner

by Elijah Kellogg

by Salisbury Field

by B. M. Bower

by Frank R. Stockton

by Clarice E. Richards

by Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by Frank R. Stockton

by Harry Castlemon

by Charles King

by Homer Greene

by William Dean Howells

by S. James Weldon

by Bryce Walton

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Edward Payson Roe

by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

by Oliver Herford

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Ralph Boston

by Marion Ames Taggart

by Jackson Gregory

by William John Hopkins

by Anna Chapin Ray

by Ernest Howard Culbertson

by Henry Wallace Phillips

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Will Levington Comfort

by Alice Duer Miller

by Mayne Reid

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Thomas Boyd

by Helen Beecher Long

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Craig

by Mark Twain

by Bliss Perry, John Greenleaf Whittier

by Edwin Balmer

by William O. Stoddard

by James Russell Lowell

by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman

by Walt Mason

by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

by John Habberton

by Grace Miller White, Livingston Robert Shewell

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Charles Caldwell Dobie

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams

by Mark Twain

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Edward G. (Edward Gheen) Cheyney