

He’s like a savant in historical renovation and engineering of most anything. Their own father took them on a covered wagon journey when they were children so that they could “see American slowly.”īuck is the more bookish brother who tries to pack a shoeshine kit and bocce ball set in the covered wagon while his brother promptly tosses them in the rubbish pile. He and Nick had an interesting childhood to say the least.

Joseph, Missouri to Baker City, Oregon with his brother Nick in a covered wagon pulled by a trio of mules. In this book, Buck shares his account of re-traveling the Oregon trail from St. I randomly picked up the book The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck at the library and now I’m obsessed with the Oregon Trail. For having grown up playing The Oregon Trail a lot, I don’t know much about the Oregon Trail.Īm I finally reaching the age where I can’t remember things well, or did we gloss over this in grade school? Anyway, this is what I thought I knew about the Oregon Trail: Pioneer people traveled by covered wagons pulled by oxen to Oregon and California in search of land and the gold rush.
