The Oregon Trail

A New American Journey

Rinker Buck

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Simon & Schuster
01 July 2016

Travel & holiday; Expeditions

Traveling from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Baker City, Oregon, over the course of four months, Buck is accompanied by three cantankerous mules, his boisterous brother, Nick, and a Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. Along the way, they dodge thunderstorms in Nebraska, chase runaway mules across the Wyoming plains, cross the Rockies, and make desperate fifty-mile forced marches for water. The Buck brothers repair so many broken wheels and axels that they nearly reinvent the art of wagon travel itself. They also must reckon with the ghost of their father, an eccentric yet loveable dreamer whose memory inspired their journey across the plains and whose premature death, many years earlier, has haunted them both ever since.

By: Rinker Buck
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 447g
ISBN: 9781451659177
ISBN 10: 1451659172
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 01 July 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

Excellent . . . An amazing cross-country journey . . . Rinker and Nick Buck s conquest of the trail, the achievement of a lifetime, makes for a real nonfiction thriller, an account that keeps you turning the pages because you can t conceive how the protagonists will make it through the enormous real-life obstacles confronting them. Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books