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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 Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Virginia Frazer Boyle

by Joseph Medill Patterson

by Charles Klein, Arthur Hornblow

by Margaret Vandercook

by Walter M. Miller

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Lucy S. Furman

by Winston Churchill

by James Otis

by James Whitcomb Riley

by Winston Churchill

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by Arthur Stringer

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by O. Henry

by Kurt Vonnegut

by Henry David Thoreau

by Louisa May Alcott

by Jack London

by Jack London

by Charles Brockden Brown

by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Henry James

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Ambrose Bierce

by Ambrose Bierce

by Allan Pinkerton

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Sara Teasdale

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by Fanny Fern

by Mark Twain

by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Mary Jane Holmes

by James Otis

by Bret Harte

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Charles Boardman Hawes

by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

by Edna Ferber

by Susan Glaspell

by Zane Grey

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Frank Norris

by Henry A. (Henry Augustus) Shute

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Graham B. Forbes

by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

by William Dean Howells

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Mark Twain

by Susan Fenimore Cooper

by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

by Jarena Lee

by Edward Payson Roe

by Jennette Lee

by Velda Allis Eddy

by Elijah Kellogg

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Winston Churchill

by Opie Percival Read

by Edith Wharton

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Owen Wister

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Willa Cather

by Mark Twain

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Willa Cather

by Edward Everett Hale

by Zane Grey

by Mark Twain

by William Dean Howells

by John Greenleaf Whittier

by George Washington Cable

by Louisa May Alcott

by Henry James

by William MacLeod Raine

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Mark Twain

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Margaret Fuller

by Mark Twain

by Leona Dalrymple

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Sherwood Anderson

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Mark Twain