This Vast Land

2003 young-adult historical novel by Stephen Ambrose
First edition

This Vast Land is an historical novel for the young-adult public, written by American historian and 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 novel details the expedition from Shannon's viewpoint; although beginning the expedition as the most inexperienced member, he slowly matures into one of the expedition's most important figures.

  • v
  • t
  • e
Stephen E. Ambrose
Works
  • 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 1944–45 (2001)
  • To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian (2002)
  • This Vast Land (2003)


Stub icon

This article about a historical novel of the 2000s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

  • v
  • t
  • e