Oregon Trail Book Rinker Buck. The best travel memoirs tell three stories at once — about the author, the trip itself and the territory being traveled. Rinker buck’s the oregon trail:
This trip down the ohio and mississippi rivers on the patience is a fitting next volume in rinker’s unique style of combining history with a modern day travel journal. Rinker buck talks about the importance of the oregon trail, the 2,000 mile road that runs through six states from missouri to the pacific coast. Rinker buck’s the oregon trail:
In the bestselling tradition of bill bryson and tony horwitz, rinker buck's the oregon trail is a major work of participatory history:
His first travel narrative, flight of passage, was hailed by the new yorker as a funny, cocky gem of a book, and with the oregon trail he brings the most important route in american history back to glorious and vibrant life. It was called the oregon trail because originally the first pioneers were going to oregon but after the gold rush of 1849, and then of course the mormons. He speaks at the 9th annual savannah book festival. Today, amazingly, the trail is all but forgotten.