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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 Finley Melville Kendall Foster

by Rebecca West

by Ernest Vincent Wright

by Amos Bronson Alcott

by Israel Zangwill

by Jack London

by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

by Louisa May Alcott

by Iowa Press and Authors' Club

by Bret Harte

by Jack London

by Joel Barlow

by Harry Leon Wilson

by Sidney McCall

by Herman Melville

by John Sherburne Sleeper

by Henry Sydnor Harrison

by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance, James French Dorrance

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Kathleen Howard

by Carl Van Doren

by Susan Warner

by Stewart Edward White

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Edgar Pangborn

by Rupert Hughes

by A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) Calhoun

by Hugh Pendexter

by Anna Katharine Green

by Various Authors

by Vaughan Kester

by Owen Wister

by Albert Edwards

by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

by Emerson Hough

by Phil Robinson

by Ysabel De Teresa

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Bret Harte

by William Dean Howells

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Jack London

by Various Authors

by Amanda M. Douglas

by George Cary Eggleston

by Orrie Lashin, Milo Hastings

by Anonymous

by Geraldine Farrar

by George Pope Morris

by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

by Harold Whitehead

by Claude McKay

by Edward Bellamy

by Richard Harding Davis

by Various Authors

by C. C. (Charles Carroll) Goodwin

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Charles Dudley Warner

by William Dean Howells

by Various Authors

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Arthur Stringer

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Jane Helen Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAulay

by Harold Bell Wright

by George Randolph Chester

by Bret Harte

by Burt L. Standish

by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

by Various Authors

by Eugene O'Neill

by Cyrus Townsend Brady

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Willie Walker Caldwell

by Edith Ballinger Price

by Marion Ames Taggart

by Clara Louise Burnham

by Various Authors

by Susan Warner

by Robert Montgomery Bird

by Hamlin Garland

by James Branch Cabell

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

by Henry Holcomb Bennett

by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

by William S. (William Surrey) Hart

by Henry Slesar

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Howard Roger Garis

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by William H. (William Henry) Hamby

by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

by Marion Harland