Buck entertains and enlightens with discourses on American history and culture. Interspersed with the story of his westward journey, Mr. Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books

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.” Weaving a tale somewhere between a travelogue and a history lesson, Buck traces the iconic path literally and figuratively as he re-creates the great migration with his brother and a Jack Russell terrier.” 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). 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 TimesĪ 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. “Absorbing…Winning…The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. “Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” -Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books “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

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