Explorers & colonists: Sebastian Cabot, Henry Hudson, Robert Juet & William Bradford --
Puritans: Roger Williams, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather & William Faulkner --
Revolutionaries: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, J. Hector Crevecoueur, Philip Freneau & Washington Irving --
Continental: Meriwether Lewis, William Clark & Sacagawea --
Pioneers: James Fenimore Cooper's wild literary ride --
Pale faces & redskins: Robert Baird, Catharine Sedgwick & Lydia Maria Child --
Radicals: Margaret Fuller & Henry David Thoreau --
Allegorical: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville & John Muir --
Coquette: Emily Dickinson --
Twentieth century & beyond: Jack London, Mary Austin, Willa Cather & F. Scott Fitzgerald.