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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 Walt Whitman

by Stanley R. Matthews

by James Hopper

by William J. Burns, Isabel Ostrander

by Eugene P. (Eugene Paul) Sheehy, Kenneth A. Lohf

by Alexander Black

by Charles Alden Seltzer

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Richard Harding Davis

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Melville Davisson Post

by Martha Finley

by Isabel Ostrander

by Elihu W. (Elihu Whittlesey) Baldwin, Aaron W. (Aaron Whitney) Leland

by Amos Bronson Alcott

by Edwin Lefevre

by Harriet Pyne Grove

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Amanda M. Douglas

by Victor Appleton

by Josh Billings

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Harold Titus

by Jeanie Gould Lincoln

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

by Harold Bindloss

by Nancy Huston Banks

by Robert Sidney Bowen

by Charles Neville Buck

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by Constance Fenimore Woolson

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Various Authors

by Morgan Scott

by Keene Abbott

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Ambrose Newcomb

by Fritz Leiber

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by Edward Bellamy

by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

by Clarence Edward Mulford

by John Dos Passos

by Prentiss Ingraham

by George Pattullo

by Mrs. J. J. Colter

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Edwin Carlile Litsey

by H. E. C. (Henry Edward Cowan) Bryant

by Pauline Bradford Mackie

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Clarence Day

by Josephine Chase

by Nicholas (House name) Carter

by Crittenden Marriott

by Edgar Allan Poe

by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor

by James L. (James Lauren) Ford

by Ralph Keeler
by Keith Laumer

by Reginald Horsley

by Winthrop Packard

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Adele E. Thompson

by Various Authors

by Prentiss Ingraham

by Aline Havard

by J. W. Duffield

by Various Authors

by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

by Ivar Jorgensen

by Ray Cummings

by Burt L. Standish

by William Dean Howells

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Miriam Allen De Ford

by Luis Senarens

by Mark Twain

by Various Authors

by Henry Harrison Lewis

by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones

by Russell Gordon Carter

by Konni Zilliacus

by Marah Ellis Ryan

by Maud Howe Elliott

by Hamlin Garland

by William MacLeod Raine

by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin

by Joseph Bushnell Ames

by Francis William Sullivan