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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 James Otis

by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Edith Wharton

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Lucy Ellen Guernsey

by Lucy Ellen Guernsey

by Clifford Ball

by Amy Ella Blanchard

by Raymond S. (Raymond Smiley) Spears

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Oliver Optic

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Edward Stratemeyer

by Marion Ames Taggart

by Edwin Baird

by William Styron

by Victor Appleton

by Burt L. Standish

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Burt L. Standish

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Alma Ellerbe, Paul Ellerbe

by Samuel R. Brown

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Alice B. Emerson

by Keith Henney

by Andrew A. (Andrew Augustine) Caffrey

by James Oppenheim

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Thomson Burtis

by H. P. S. (Henry Paul Stevens) Greene

by Madeline Leslie

by Dan Morrissey

by W. R. Bethel

by Frances Little

by Kalle Potti

by Isaac Asimov

by Robert Nathan

by Samuel Spewack

by Lemuel De Bra

by Herman Melville

by Robert J. (Robert Joseph) Casey, Mary Montgomery Borglum

by Ralph Delahaye Paine

by Alice van Leer Carrick

by Gore Vidal

by Virginius Dabney

by Robert Winchester

by Edward Eggleston

by Louisa May Alcott

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Ednah Aiken

by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

by Nina Rhoades

by Frances A. (Frances Amelia) Humphrey

by Louis Bromfield

by Edmond Hamilton

by Charles Egbert Craddock

by Christian Reid

by Emily Post

by Sara Lindsay Coleman Porter

by Edmond Hamilton

by Martha Noyes Williams

by Lucy Ellen Guernsey

by Charles King

by Clarence Edwin Flynn

by Mignon G. (Mignon Good) Eberhart

by Eliza Orne White

by Oliver Optic

by Clare Winger Harris

by Edgar Morette

by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

by Various Authors

by Ellen Douglas Deland

by Julian Hawthorne

by Marion Ames Taggart

by Joslyn Gray

by E. Ralph (Edwin Ralph) Estep

by Leland Jamieson

by Amy Ella Blanchard

by Dorothy Whitehill

by R. Emmet (Robert Emmet) Kennedy

by Alida Malkus

by William P. (William Pendleton) Chipman

by Marie Coolidge-Rask, Winifred Dunn

by Victor Appleton

by Kay Cleaver Strahan

by James Otis

by Frederick Orin Bartlett

by Bertrand W. Sinclair

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Harriet B. (Harriet Burn) McKeever

by Victor Appleton

by James A. Cooper

by Walt Coburn

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Charles Egbert Craddock