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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 Nelson Lloyd

by Augustus Allen Hayes

by Oliver Optic

by William Dean Howells

by Edward Streeter

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Sherman Crockett

by Harry Castlemon

by Henry Blossom

by David Gray

by Various Authors

by J. F. Lee

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Henry Milner Rideout

by Various Authors

by Lilian Garis

by Mark Lee Luther

by Harry Sinclair Drago

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Honoré Morrow

by William Dean Howells

by James T. (James Taylor) Forrest, Rosamund Slack

by Ellen M. Firebaugh

by John Theodore Mueller

by Burton Egbert Stevenson

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Mary Ellen Mannix

by Harry Castlemon

by Owen Wister

by Charles J. Gillis

by Geraldine Bonner

by Various Authors
by Harry Castlemon

by Burt L. Standish

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Graham B. Forbes

by Carolyn Wells

by Clara Barton

by Sartell Prentice

by Basil Wells

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

by Marietta Holley

by Various Authors

by Eleanor Gates

by Chester Cohen

by Ray Cummings

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Lysander Spooner

by Neith Boyce

by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Adela E. (Adela Elizabeth Richards) Orpen

by Ella Cheever Thayer

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Charles R. (Charles Richard) Kenyon

by Stephen Angus Douglas Cox

by Various Authors

by Upton Sinclair

by Bret Harte

by John Victor Peterson

by Roy Norton

by Upton Sinclair

by Fannie Hurst

by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

by Ben Hecht

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Julia Magruder

by Hutchins Hapgood

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by Henry David Thoreau

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Reuben Post Halleck

by Earle Ashley Walcott

by Bliss Perry

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by Charles Henry Fowler

by Sterling North

by Emerson Hough

by Charles Felton Pidgin

by Ralph Milne Farley

by Madison Julius Cawein

by Frederic Remington

by Various Authors

by Sir Charles Augustus Murray

by Mary Johnston

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Mary Johnston

by Clara Louise Kellogg

by Frank Mayer

by Margaret Widdemer

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Various Authors

by David Grayson

by Various Authors