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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 Edward Sylvester Ellis

by William James Stillman

by Katharine Holland Brown

by Marshall McClintock

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Samson Raphaelson

by Frank R. Stockton

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Prentiss Ingraham

by Molly Elliot Seawell

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Florence Hull Winterburn

by Francis A. (Francis Alexandre) Adams

by Jack Williamson

by Jane Abbott

by L. (Lily) Dougall

by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

by Ticknor and Company

by Fanny Fern

by Carolyn Judson Burnett

by Jr. Horatio Alger

by Randall Parrish

by Joaquin Miller

by Sarah C. Hallowell

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

by Gore Vidal

by Various Authors

by Mary Imlay Taylor

by Charles Sprague

by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

by Nelson Lloyd

by Lily Hardy Hammond

by Gore Vidal

by Irwin R. Franklyn

by Harry Castlemon

by Ethel Cook Eliot

by Hallie Erminie Rives

by Burt L. Standish

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Frances C. Sparhawk

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

by Various Authors

by Lawrence L. Lynch

by Caroline Lockhart

by Pemberton Ginther

by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

by Emily Dickinson

by Peter Clark MacFarlane

by Mary K. (Mary Katherine) Maule

by Robert Green Ingersoll

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by Various Authors

by Carolyn Wells

by Credo Fitch Harris

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by Ada Woodruff Anderson

by Frederick Niven

by Various Authors

by Felix Grendon

by Effie Price Gladding

by Albert Edwards

by Nettie Garmer Barker

by Mary MacLane

by Gordon MacLaren

by Mary MacLane

by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler

by Joseph Payne Brennan

by Edgar Saltus

by Larry Evans

by George Allan England

by Clarence Young

by George S. Harney

by Frances Cavanah

by Various Authors

by Frank R. Stockton

by Otis T. Howd, Cloice R. Howd

by Rodrigues Ottolengui

by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

by Eando Binder

by Daniel Dulany Addison

by Beth Bradford Gilchrist

by Robert Welles Ritchie

by II Victor Appleton

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

by Thorne Smith

by W. I. (William I.) Hood

by Myra Kelly

by Edward Simmons