The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

Blurb

1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 1 Indie Next Pick Winner of the PEN New England Award Enchanting A book filled with so much love Long before Oregon Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon The Wall Street Journal Amazing A real nonfiction thriller Ian Frazier The New York Review of Books Absorbing Winning The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr Buck s voice which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Bryson s comic tone in A Walk in the Woods Dwight Garner The New York Times A major bestseller that has been hailed as a quintessential American story Christian Science Monitor Rinker Buck s The Oregon Trail is an epic account of traveling the 2 000 mile length of the Oregon Trail the old fashioned way in a covered wagon with a team of mules that has captivated readers critics and booksellers from coast to coast Simultaneously a majestic journey across the West a significant work of history and a moving personal saga Buck s chronicle is a laugh out loud masterpiece Willamette Week that so ensnares the emotions it becomes a tear jerker at its close Star Tribune Minneapolis and will leave you daydreaming and hungry to see this land The Boston Globe In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz Rinker Buck s The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history an epic account of traveling the 2 000 mile length of the Oregon Trail the old fashioned way in a covered wagon with a team of mules which hasn t been done in a century that also tells the rich history of the trail the people who made the migration and its significance to the country Spanning 2 000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean the Oregon Trail is the route that made America In the fifteen years before the Civil War when 400 000 pioneers used it to emigrate West historians still regard this as the large