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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 Stephen French Whitman

by Margaret Hill McCarter

by Various Authors
by Clarence Edward Mulford

by Andrew Adderup

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Grace Livingston Hill

by William Dean Howells

by Solon Robinson

by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

by Josephine Chase

by Margaret Hill McCarter

by Esther Chamberlain, Lucia Chamberlain

by Louis Joseph Vance, Winchell Smith

by James Stevens

by Rena I. Halsey

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield

by Charles H. (Charles Henry) Caffin

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Rebecca Harding Davis

by Edward Bellamy

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by David Graham Phillips

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Alice Brown

by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

by Robt. L. (Robert Love) Taylor

by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

by Nina Wilcox Putnam

by Bret Harte

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Will Lillibridge

by Willis Boyd Allen

by Byron A. (Byron Archibald) Dunn

by Various Authors

by Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus) Crandall

by Mary Ellen Chase

by Mark Twain

by Harold Titus

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by Harold MacGrath

by Frank R. Stockton

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Ira L. (Ira Louis) Reeves

by Adele Garrison

by Carolyn Wells

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Stewart Edward White

by Randall Parrish

by Edward Bellamy

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

by William C. (Clark) Falkner

by Jackson Gregory

by Olive Higgins Prouty

by Henry Oyen

by George Cary Eggleston

by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

by Various Authors

by Marion Ames Taggart

by Octave Thanet

by Allen Chapman

by Erick Berry

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe

by George Niblo

by Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

by Clarence Edward Mulford

by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

by Marguerite Bernard, Edith Serrell

by Hallie Erminie Rives

by Bret Harte

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Irving Bacheller

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Mark Overton

by John Garland

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Mark Twain

by Booth Tarkington

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Richard Harding Davis

by Harriet Pyne Grove

by Carolyn Wells

by James Otis

by Marion Harland

by Florence Finch Kelly

by George Middleton

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Louis Custer Martin Reed

by Weymer Jay Mills

by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

by Paul Hutchens

by James Otis

by Homer Randall

by Joseph Hergesheimer