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		Buck, Rinker, 1950- -- Travel -- Oregon National Historic Trail.
		Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.).
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		Trails -- United States -- Description and travel.
		Wagon trains -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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		West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
		West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860.

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The Oregon Trail : a new American journey / by Rinker Buck.

by Buck, Rinker, 1950-

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Thorndike Press, 2015.

Buck, Rinker, 1950- -- Travel -- Oregon National Historic Trail.

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.).

Overland Trails -- United States -- Description and travel.

Trails -- United States -- Description and travel.

Wagon trains -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.

Oregon National Historic Trail -- Description and travel.

West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.

West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860.

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.

9781410482709 (large print)

1410482707 (large print)

Large print ed.

753 p. (large print) : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

"Traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way -- in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century -- which also chronicles the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country. Spanning two thousand miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific coast, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used the trail to emigrate West -- scholars still regard this as the largest land migration in history -- it united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The author brings the most important route in American history back to glorious and vibrant life. 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 an "incurably filthy" Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. They dodge thunderstorms in Nebraska, chase runaway mules across the Wyoming plains, scout more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, 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. This is also a lively work of history that shatters the comforting myths about the trail years passed down by generations of Americans. The largely forgotten roles played by trailblazing evangelists, friendly Indian tribes, female pioneers, bumbling U.S. Army cavalrymen, the scam artists who flocked to the frontier to fleece the overland emigrants and old and appealing things like the mule and the wagon"--Provided by publisher.

Travel memoirs.

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