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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 Ernest Haycox

by Ray Cummings

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Langston Hughes

by Franklin W. Dixon

by James Russell Lowell

by Walter Lippmann

by Earl Derr Biggers

by Fannie Hurst

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

by Oliver Optic

by Leroy Scott

by Oliver Optic

by Murray Leinster

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by Henry Olerich

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by John Hay

by Lester Chadwick

by Alida Malkus

by Edith Wharton

by Madeline Leslie

by James Cody Ferris

by Edward Stratemeyer

by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre

by Thomson Burtis

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Walt Coburn

by Charles Everett Hall

by Phyllis Bottome

by Arthur Preston Hankins

by Alfred Bester

by Lucy Ellen Guernsey

by Jack Woodford

by Robert Silverberg

by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Penn Shirley

by Jr. Thomas Dixon

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Zora Neale Hurston

by J. Frank (James Francis) Davis

by Mary Jane Holmes

by Ida Reade Allen

by Theodore Solomons

by Samuel Scoville

by Ann Bannon

by Amelia E. Barr

by Roy Franklin

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Eugene Cunningham

by Henry Kitchell Webster

by Murray Leinster

by Gertrude Hall Brownell

by Jack Williamson

by Orestes Augustus Brownson

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Isa Glenn

by Theodore Dreiser

by Carl Van Vechten

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

by Sarah Orne Jewett

by James Truslow Adams

by Hamlin Garland

by E. G. (Ephraim George) Squier

by DuBose Heyward

by Ray Cummings

by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
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by Ray Humphreys

by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Francis Lynde

by Ray Humphreys

by Ray Cummings

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, George Jean Nathan

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Victor Rubin

by Alice R. Humphrey

by Jr. (Charles Colcock) Charles C. Jones

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

by Hezekiah Butterworth

by Abbie Farwell Brown

by Edith Wharton

by Victor Appleton

by John T. (John Tyler) Wheelwright

by Dallas Lore Sharp

by George Sylvester Viereck

by Nelson S. Bond

by Lucy Ellen Guernsey