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020 $a9781451659160$q(hbk.)
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035 $a(OCoLC)894746614
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050 00 $aF597$b.B89 2015
082 00 $a978$223
100 1 $aBuck, Rinker,$d1950-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Oregon Trail :$ba new American journey /$cRinker Buck.
250 $aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bSimon & Schuster,$c2015.
300 $a450 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aSpanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used it to emigrate West, the trail united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The trail years also solidified the American character: our plucky determination in the face of adversity, our impetuous cycle of financial bubbles and busts, the fractious clash of ethnic populations competing for the same jobs and space. At once an American journey, a work of history, and a personal saga, this book tells the story of Buck's 2,000-mile expedition across the plains. He was accompanied by three cantankerous mules, his boisterous brother, Nick, and an "incurably filthy" Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. Along the way, Buck dodges thunderstorms in Nebraska, chases his runaway mules across miles of Wyoming plains, scouts more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, crosses the Rockies, makes desperate fifty-mile forced marches for water, and repairs so many broken wheels and axels that he nearly reinvents the art of wagon travel itself. Apart from charting his own geographical and emotional adventure, Buck introduces readers to the evangelists, shysters, natives, trailblazers, and everyday dreamers who were among the first of the pioneers to make the journey west.
600 10 $aBuck, Rinker,$d1950-$xTravel$zOregon National Historic Trail.
650 0 $aHistorical reenactments$zOregon National Historic Trail.
650 0 $aOverland journeys to the Pacific.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zWest (U.S.)
651 0 $aOregon National Historic Trail.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xDescription and travel.
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