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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 Edith Lavell

by Various Authors

by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Marion Ames Taggart

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Major (John) Richardson

by Will Rogers

by Prentiss Ingraham

by Brother Jabez, Ulysses Sidney Koons

by Irving Bacheller

by Clarence Young

by Madison Julius Cawein

by James L. (James Lauren) Ford

by Anne Warner

by Frank Walton

by Frank V. Webster

by Carolyn Wells

by George Barr McCutcheon

by William Dean Howells

by Richard Dallas

by H. Beam Piper, John J. (John Joseph) McGuire

by Various Authors

by Nina Rhoades

by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs

by Sidford F. (Sidford Frederick) Hamp

by Allen Chapman

by Zona Gale

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Myrtle Reed

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Otto H. Kahn

by Bernie Babcock

by Stuart Walcott

by Leroy Scott

by Marietta Holley

by Henry Wallace Phillips

by Henry Reed Conant

by Ellis Parker Butler

by St. George Rathborne

by Franklin Smith Farquhar

by Madeleine L'Engle

by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson

by James L. (James Lorenzo) Bowen

by Various Authors

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Nathaniel Parker Willis

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Ella Rodman Church

by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

by Eugene Field

by Luis Senarens

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Frederick Whittaker

by Elizabeth Weston Timlow

by Burt L. Standish

by Alice Turner Curtis

by Upton Sinclair

by Annie Hamilton Donnell

by Jr. Horatio Alger, Edward Stratemeyer

by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, C. C. (Charles Carey) Waddell

by Winston Churchill

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Alan Edward Nourse

by Various Authors

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Various Authors

by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

by Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth) Sangster

by A. (Augustin) Thompson

by Alan Edward Nourse

by Edwin Carlile Litsey

by Various Authors

by Meredith Nicholson

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson

by Josephine Chase

by John G. Ellenbecker

by David Graham Phillips

by Albion Winegar Tourgée

by Burt L. Standish

by Archibald Clavering Gunter

by Stephen H. Branch

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by Anna Katharine Green

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Lester Chadwick

by Robert Grant

by Emerson Hough

by Amy D. V. Chalmers

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Richard Neville

by Joel Chandler Harris