The Oregon Trail: a new American journey
β Scribed by Rinker Buck
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1451659172
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β¦ Synopsis
#1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Next Pick * Amazon and Apple Best of the Month
βAbsorbing...Winning...The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Buckβs voice, which is alert and unpretentious in a manner that put me in mind of Bill Brysonβs comic tone in A Walk in the Woods.β βDwight Garner, The New York Times
An epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned wayβin a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasnβt been attempted in a centuryβwhich 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...
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