#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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." 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." The New York Times
#1 New York Times bestseller, this epic and deeply moving adventure blends American history, western travel, and memoir in a remarkable 2, 000-mile journey across the American West by covered wagon.
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).
