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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 Ralph Henry Barbour

by Joseph S. (Joseph Seamon) Cotter

by Frank Lillie Pollock

by Ridgwell Cullum

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Alfred Kreymborg

by Henry James

by Madeline Yale Wynne

by Alice B. (Alice Bradley) Haven

by Alfred Castner King

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Thomas

by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins

by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh

by Daniel Wright Kittredge

by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

by Margaret Culkin Banning

by Homer Greene

by Edward Smyth Jones

by William Dean Howells

by Kate Langley Bosher

by Louise Imogen Guiney

by George Fox Tucker

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Douglass Sherley

by Artemus Ward

by John Ames Mitchell

by Willis Boyd Allen

by George Jean Nathan

by Richard Rein Smith

by Sinclair Lewis

by Frederic W. (Frederic Wadsworth) Loring

by Frederic Jesup Stimson

by Edward G. (Edward Gheen) Cheyney

by Louisa May Alcott

by Harry Castlemon

by Dean L. Heffernan

by Julia M. (Julia Matilda) Olin

by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

by Hervey Allen

by Various Authors

by Robert Silverberg

by Burt L. Standish

by Mark Twain

by Bret Harte

by H. P. S. (Henry Paul Stevens) Greene

by Anita Loos

by Edward Bellamy

by John Ludlum McConnel

by William MacLeod Raine

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Anne Warner

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Alice Harriman

by Emerson Hough

by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Henry David Thoreau

by John Wilson Townsend

by Hamlin Garland

by Ernest Hemingway

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Mary Newton Stanard

by Robert Frost

by Various Authors

by Hilda Conkling

by Henry James

by Josiah Flynt

by Fred C. (Fred Charters) Kelly

by Spinners' Club

by Frank R. Stockton

by Carolyn Wells

by Jim Kjelgaard

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Grace Elizabeth King

by William Douglas O'Connor

by John G. Neihardt

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Various Authors

by Louis Joseph Vance

by Hallie Erminie Rives

by Jean Webster

by Various Authors

by Christopher Morley

by Marietta Holley

by William Cowper Brann

by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

by John Henry Goldfrap

by William Gilmore Simms

by Emerson Hough

by Charles Frederic Goss