This Vast Land
This Vast Land is a historical novel written by American author Stephen Ambrose. Published in 2003 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, it a fictionalized account in the form of a diary written by George Shannon, the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The book details the expedition from the view of Shannon, who although beginning the expedition as the most inexperienced member, slowly matures into one of the expedition's most important figures.
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- Halleck: Lincoln's Chief of Staff (1962)
- Upton and the Army (1964)
- Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point (1966)
- Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (1967)
- The Supreme Commander: the War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1970)
- Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (1975)
- Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (1981)
- Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 (1985)
- Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913-1962 (1987)
- Eisenhower: Soldier and President (1990)
- Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972 (1990)
- Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990 (1991)
- Band of Brothers, E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (1992)
- D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (1994)
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996)
- Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 - May 7, 1945 (1997)
- Americans at War (1997)
- The Victors: Eisenhower and his Boys - The Men of World War II (1998)
- Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals (1999)
- Nothing Like it in the World: The Men who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 (2000)
- The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s over Germany (2001)
- To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian (2002)
- This Vast Land (2003)
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