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#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. Bucks voice which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Brysons 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 Bucks The Oregon Trail is an epic account of traveling the 2000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned wayin a covered wagon with a team of mulesthat 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