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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 William Dean Howells

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

by Arthur Hoeber

by Clarence Edward Mulford

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Nelson Lloyd

by Charles King

by Edmund Clarence Stedman

by Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

by Frank R. Stockton

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by John Pendleton Kennedy

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Sydney Herman Preston

by Richard Harding Davis

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Harry Stillwell Edwards

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

by James Otis

by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

by Clarence Young

by Norman Duncan

by John G. Neihardt

by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Frank V. Webster

by Randall Parrish

by Ada Woodruff Anderson

by Ross Kay

by Harry Perry Robinson

by Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer

by Jerome Bixby

by Frances Parker

by Henry Wallace Phillips

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Fritz Leiber

by Edward L. (Edward Latimer) Beach

by Freeman Edwin Miller

by Frederick Orin Bartlett

by Alfred Bishop Mason

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Arthur Stringer

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Carolyn Wells

by Edward Everett Hale

by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell

by Anna Potter Wright

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by James Cody Ferris

by Francis Lynde

by John Habberton

by Elsie Singmaster

by Various Authors

by Mark Twain

by William Lindsey

by Edith Gilman Brewster

by Richard Harding Davis

by Stephen Angus Douglas Cox

by Willard F. Baker

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Charles Alden Seltzer

by Theodore Winthrop

by Francis Hopkinson Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith

by Katharine Pearson Woods

by Charles Lanman

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Ray Bradbury

by Arthur Chapman

by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

by Parker Fillmore

by Various Authors

by Self-made man

by Elijah Kellogg

by Jennette Lee

by Susan Warner

by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

by Charles Nordhoff

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Henry A. (Henry Augustus) Shute

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Elizabeth Cooper

by Howard Roger Garis

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Albert Payson Terhune

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by O. P. (Oscar Penn) Fitzgerald

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Mayne Reid

by Vachel Lindsay