#1 NY TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 Indie Next Pick • Winner of the PEN New England Award

“Enchanting…A book filled up with a lot love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck provides persuaded us that the ultimate way to see America is from your seat of a protected wagon.” -The Wall Street Journal

“Amazing…A real non-fiction thriller.” -Ian Frazier, The New York Overview of Books

“Absorbing…Winning…The many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. Buck’s voice, which is certainly alert and unpretentious in a way about The Oregon Trail: A FRESH American Trip that place me in mind of Expenses Bryson’s comic build inside a Walk in the Woods.” -Dwight Garner, THE BRAND NEW York Times

A major bestseller that has been hailed as a “quintessential American story” (Christian Technology Monitor), Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Path can be an epic account of traveling the two 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way-in a covered wagon having a team of mules-that has captivated readers, critics, and booksellers from coast to coast. Concurrently a majestic trip across the West, a significant function of history, and a moving personal saga, Buck’s chronicle can be a “laugh-out-loud masterpiece” (Willamette Week) that “therefore ensnares the emotions it turns into a tear-jerker at its close” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and “will leave you daydreaming and hungry to find out this property” (The Boston World).