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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 Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

by Helen Bagg

by Harold MacGrath

by James Francis Barrett

by Charles Neville Buck

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

by Cornelius Mathews

by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

by Joaquin Miller

by Lewis F. (Lewis Falley) Allen

by James Russell Lowell

by Bert Leston Taylor

by Edward Eldridge

by Sterling A. Brown

by Philip Morin Freneau

by Mary Johnston

by Eliot Gregory

by Washington Irving

by Harry Leon Wilson

by Anne Austin

by Opal Stanley Whiteley

by Burt L. Standish

by Marshall M. (Marshall Monroe) Kirkman

by Lee Wilson Dodd

by Edith Wharton

by George Washington Cable

by Hamlin Garland

by William West Winter

by Cyrus Townsend Brady, William Gillette

by Jane Abbott

by Ella Cheever Thayer

by Bret Harte

by Isla May Mullins

by Ruby Lorraine Radford

by Various Authors

by Owen Davis

by Carolyn Wells

by Payne Erskine

by Vaughan Kester

by Henry James

by William Dean Howells

by Samuel Hopkins Adams

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Amelia E. Barr

by Samuel Merwin

by Various Authors

by Bret Harte

by Konrad Bercovici

by E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins

by Louis Joseph Vance

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Peter McArthur

by William MacLeod Raine

by John Henry Goldfrap

by Harry Leon Wilson

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

by Charles Alden Seltzer

by Matt (Martha Jane) Crim

by Hal Dunning

by May Agnes Fleming

by Bruno Lessing

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Louis Becke

by Robert Sidney Bowen

by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

by Florence Finch Kelly

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

by Elizabeth Dejeans

by Teddy Keller

by American Sunday-School Union

by Carolyn Wells

by Cyrus Townsend Brady

by Burt L. Standish

by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

by Various Authors

by Faith Baldwin

by Van Tassel Sutphen

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by James Lane Allen

by Virginia Hughes

by James R. Mears

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Noah Brooks

by Will Carleton

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Burt L. Standish