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A Ambrose and his wife (with daughter Grace) summer in Helena, Mont.
> Above the Missouri River, Ambrose hikes with grandson Riley, 6.
given to him by an aunt in 1975, Ambrose recalls, that ?hooked? the author on his subject. ?I knew,? he says, ?that I had to go out there and see this country.? Which is what he did the following summer, packing up his family?he and Moira have five children between them, now grown?and hiking a small stretch of the rugged trail.
(Ambrose will soon venture into another untamed wilderness: television.
He has optioned Undaunted Courage, for six figures, to National Geographic Television, in association with Hallmark Entertainment, which plans to turn the book into a miniseries.)
Reading aloud from Lewis?s journals that summer 20 years ago, Ambrose unwittingly embarked, like Lewis and Clark, on a journey of discovery, the outcome of which he could not possibly have envisioned. ?The single thing I most wanted was to enlarge the circle of those of us who sit around the campfire talking about Lewis and Clark,? he says. With 197,500 copies of Undaunted Courage in print, that modest goal has clearly been met.
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