#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.
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 ).. --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.
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 . --Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books Absorbing...
Winning...
The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. -- The Wall Street Journal Amazing...
A real nonfiction thriller. #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