It turns out Stephen Ambrose didn't just write history books. The author of best sellers such as "Band of Brothers" and "The Wild Blue" also finished a children's novel shortly before his death last fall.
Simon & Schuster, his longtime publisher, said it plans to release Ambrose's "This Vast Land," a novel that imagines the Lewis and Clark expedition through the words of a young explorer.
No date of publication was given.
"My father's passion for the story of Lewis and Clark compelled him to move beyond the bounds of nonfiction," Hugh Ambrose, the late historian's son, said Wednesday.
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One of Ambrose's most popular books, "Undaunted Courage," was a nonfiction story of Lewis and Clark.