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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 Mabel Cronise Jones

by Manly Wade Wellman

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh

by Mark Twain

by Harry Castlemon

by Francis Lynde

by Mark Twain

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins, E. K. Nostwell

by Various Authors

by Mary Stewart Cutting

by Basil Lubbock

by Lurana Sheldon

by Yates Stirling

by Julia Magruder

by Henry Leverage

by Jennette Lee

by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland

by Hervey Allen

by Francis J. (Francis James) Finn

by Oliver Optic

by Sherman Crockett

by Edith Lavell

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Herbert D. Kastle

by Ben Ames Williams

by Stella M. Francis

by John Victor Peterson

by B. M. Bower

by David Graham Phillips

by Seba Smith

by Mark Twain

by Upton Sinclair

by Donald A. Wollheim

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

by Carl Van Vechten

by Herbert Quick

by Charles Alden Seltzer

by Josephine Chase

by Alice B. Emerson

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Grace Miller White

by James Tandy Ellis

by Marie Stevens Howland

by Theodore Roosevelt

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

by Susan Glaspell

by Various Authors

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by John Burroughs

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Reginald Wright Kauffman

by Nalbro Bartley

by David Ross Locke

by Emily Dickinson

by Upton Sinclair

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Robert Benchley

by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

by Sinclair Lewis

by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

by Fanny Kemble

by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Mary Stewart Daggett

by James Oliver Curwood

by Irving Bacheller

by Bret Harte

by Philip K. Dick

by Percy Marks

by Henry Van Dyke

by Joe Mills

by Clara Morris

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by Various Authors

by Basil King

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Don Marquis

by John Turvill Adams

by D. (Dietrich) Lange

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Meredith Nicholson

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

by Jean Webster

by Irving Bacheller

by Bret Harte

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by James Lane Allen