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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 Frank Norris

by James Branch Cabell

by Irving Bacheller

by Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Oscar Micheaux

by Mabel Osgood Wright

by Edith Wharton

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Mark Twain

by Upton Sinclair

by Sophie May

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Harry Castlemon

by Emerson Hough

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by George Randolph Chester

by George Bird Grinnell

by William Dean Howells

by James Otis

by Harry Castlemon

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger

by Josephine Chase

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Zane Grey

by Corra Harris

by Josephine Chase

by Meredith Nicholson

by Ida Hamilton Munsell

by Mark Overton

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Herman Melville

by Washington Irving

by Ernest Thompson Seton

by Burt L. Standish

by Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

by Christopher Morley

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by James Branch Cabell

by Hamlin Garland

by George Ade

by Zane Grey

by Lucy Larcom

by Various Authors

by B. M. Bower

by Zane Grey

by Jack London

by George Gibbs

by Bret Harte

by William Wells Brown

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Edward Payson Roe

by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

by Julian Hawthorne

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Max Brand

by George Ade

by Various Authors

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Harold Bell Wright

by Gene Stratton-Porter

by Grace Livingston Hill

by Max Brand

by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

by Clyde Fitch

by B. M. Bower

by Nell Speed

by Howard Roger Garis

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

by Edward Bellamy

by Edward Payson Roe

by Anna Katharine Green

by Sophie May

by Rex Beach

by George Washington Cable

by Charles Dudley Warner

by William Carlos Williams

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson

by Jr. John Fox

by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

by Martha Finley

by Winston Churchill

by Harry Castlemon

by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

by Eva Stern

by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by Herman Melville