Readers can be glad the two men went to the trouble, as The Oregon Trail is early American history packaged as an entertaining travelogue. As Buck notes, “Naiveté is the mother of adventure.” His audacious plan was to follow as closely as possible the old Oregon Trail, the 2,000-mile route by which thousands of American settlers migrated west in the 1840s and 1850s. In the first pages of his book The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, Buck (rightfully) wonders why two middle-aged men decided to spend four months, side by side, on a butt-breaking wooden seat maneuvering a covered wagon, pulled by three mules, from Missouri to Oregon.
Review: The Oregon Trail: A new American Journey CloseĪUTHOR RINKER BUCK DESCRIBES himself as a “divorced boozehound with a bad driving record and emerging symptoms of low self-esteem.” His brother, Nick, is a former ski instructor, part-time actor and carpenter.
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