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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 Paul Leicester Ford

by Edith Bancroft

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Harold Frederic

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon

by Hallie Erminie Rives

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Edward Everett Hale

by Ambrose Bierce

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Upton Sinclair

by Theodore Dreiser

by Octave Thanet

by Pansy

by George Horace Lorimer

by Carolyn Wells

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Jack London

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Vaughan Kester

by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Kelley

by Marie Conway Oemler

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Anna Katharine Green

by Various Authors

by Will E. (William Ernest) Ingersoll

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by (Joseph Allan) J. Allan Dunn

by Marah Ellis Ryan

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Geraldine Bonner

by Fritz Leiber

by Jackson Gregory

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Clarence Louis Cullen

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by Montague Glass

by John Henry Goldfrap

by Charles Willing Beale

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Charles Major

by Weymer Jay Mills

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by George Cary Eggleston

by James Otis

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Francis Worcester Doughty

by Susan Warner

by Upton Sinclair

by Thomas Jefferson

by Noel West

by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

by Susa Young Gates

by Arlo Bates

by Burt L. Standish

by Ethel Hueston

by Jack London

by Harold Titus

by Henry Thew Stephenson

by Carolyn Wells

by Edgar Lee Masters

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by Edith Wharton

by Edward Barron

by Various Authors

by Edward L. Bernays, Samuel Hoffenstein, Walter J. Kingsley, Murdock Pemberton

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Florence Crannell Means

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by William Alexander Taylor

by DuBose Heyward

by George Cary Eggleston

by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

by Garrett Putman Serviss

by Dane Coolidge

by Harry Castlemon

by Alleyne Ireland

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Frank V. Webster

by George William Curtis

by Col. J. M. Travers

by Eliza Calvert Hall