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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 Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Various Authors

by Josephine Chase

by Charles Dana Gibson

by Vachel Lindsay

by Various Authors

by Will Bradley

by Thomas Wallace Knox

by Alfred Ernest Rice

by Pleiades Club

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

by Maxwell Bodenheim

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Henry Edward Warner

by George Dyre Eldridge

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Myrtle Reed

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by David A. Curtis

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Charles H. Davis

by Edward W. Ludwig

by Mark Twain

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Ray Cummings

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Mary Holland Kinkaid

by Burt L. Standish

by Stewart Edward White

by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

by Homer Greene

by Harvey Fergusson

by Ethel Hueston

by Various Authors

by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

by Virginia Brooks

by Samuel A. (Samuel Arthur) Derieux

by Edward Noyes Westcott

by William James

by Various Authors

by William O. Stoddard

by William Winter, William Jefferson Winter

by Philip Morin Freneau

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by John McElroy

by Lysander Spooner

by Louis J. (Louis John) Stellman

by Philip Wylie

by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

by Theodore Dreiser

by Mathew Joseph Holt

by Robert Neilson Stephens

by Anna Katharine Green

by Charles Whibley

by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by William Gilmore Simms

by Holman Day

by W. F. (William Francis) Waugh

by Elizabeth Bisland, Anne Hoyt

by Foxcroft Davis

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Gaylord Du Bois

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by William Dean Howells

by Murray Leinster

by Paul Laurence Dunbar

by Robert Green Ingersoll

by Samuel R. Delany

by Various Authors

by Finley Peter Dunne

by Bret Harte

by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

by Booth Tarkington

by Bret Harte

by Josh Billings

by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

by Waldron Baily

by Elizabeth Lounsbery

by Laura Jean Libbey

by Sewell Ford

by Ruth McEnery Stuart

by Charles Pierce Burton

by Harry Stephen Keeler

by H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner

by Henry Oyen

by Agnes Blake Poor

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Richard Harding Davis