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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 Various Authors

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

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

by Susan Warner

by Abby Morton Diaz

by Douglas Wells

by S. P. (Sterner St. Paul) Meek

by active 1830-1872 Thomas Clarke

by Josephine Preston Peabody

by Alice (Fiction writer) Morgan

by Sophie May

by Abel C. (Abel Charles) Thomas

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

by Lafcadio Hearn

by James R. Driscoll

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

by Various Authors

by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre

by Zebina Forbush

by Zona Gale

by Alice Brown

by Sarah M. H. Gardner

by Basil King

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Caroline Abbot Stanley

by Alan Edward Nourse

by Bert Leston Taylor, W. C. (William Curtis) Gibson

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Dane Coolidge

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

by Edward S. (Edward Sims) Van Zile

by Payson Sibley Wild

by Hugh Pendexter

by E. H. (Edward H.) Rauch, Washington Irving

by Jack London

by Burt L. Standish

by Henry James

by Oscar Fay Adams

by James Hugh Richardson

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Jane Burr

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by O. Henry

by Theodore Dreiser

by Various Authors

by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

by Anna Katharine Green

by Herman Melville

by Anne (Anne Burrows) Gilchrist, Walt Whitman

by Robert Benchley

by Clarence Edward Mulford

by William H. (William Harris) Elson, Christine M. Keck

by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Caroline Lee Hentz

by Various Authors

by Ellis Parker Butler

by John William De Forest

by Stewart Edward White

by William Dean Howells

by David Graham Phillips

by Doris Hayman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Marie Conway Oemler

by Theodore Dreiser

by Sinclair Lewis

by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

by Joseph Rodman Drake

by Gertrude Stein

by George S. McWatters

by George Randolph Chester

by Katharine Ellis Barrett

by Elizabeth Stoddard

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Arthur R. (Arthur Ripley) Thompson

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Miguel Cané

by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

by Thomas Godfrey

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Esther Birdsall Darling

by Mary Hastings Bradley

by Elinor Macartney Lane

by Bill Nye

by Credo Fitch Harris

by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

by Edward L. (Edward Lytton) Wheeler

by William Dean Howells

by Anna Katharine Green

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by St. George Rathborne