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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 Eugene Field

by Helen Hunt Jackson

by Daniel Defoe

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Mark Twain

by Alice B. Emerson

by Burt L. Standish

by Howard Browne

by Elsie Singmaster

by C. V. (Cecilia Viets) Jamison

by Carolyn Wells

by James Lane Allen

by Emma Speed Sampson

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Mark Twain

by Roswell Martin Field

by Winston Churchill

by Leroy Scott

by Evelyn Raymond

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Jack London

by Henry James

by Mark Twain

by O. Henry

by Frank R. Stockton

by Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Booth Tarkington

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

by Jack London

by Victor Appleton

by Booth Tarkington

by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer

by Charles King

by William Dean Howells

by Josephine Chase

by Laura Lee Hope

by Richard Harding Davis

by David Graham Phillips

by Eugene Field

by Mark Twain

by Charles Klein, Arthur Hornblow

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Anonymous

by Charles King

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

by Arlo Bates

by Stephen Crane

by Mark Twain

by Burt L. Standish

by Geraldine Bonner

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Jack London

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Benjamin Franklin

by Washington Irving

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Mark Twain

by Henry David Thoreau

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Edith K. (Edith Kellogg) Dunton

by Mark Twain

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Edith Wharton

by Winston Churchill

by Zane Grey

by Philip Francis Nowlan

by Eleanor Gates

by Jack London

by Mark Twain

by Edward Bellamy

by Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Field, Will Irwin

by Booth Tarkington

by Max Brand

by Laura Lee Hope

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Victor Appleton

by Edith Wharton

by Marshall Saunders

by Jr. John Fox

by Martha Finley

by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

by Bret Harte

by Henry Blake Fuller

by A. Frank Pinkerton

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Madeline Leslie