Rinker Buck, 64, is the author of “Flight of Passage: A Memoir” and “The Oregon Trail, A New American Journey” (Simon & Schuster), an account of his four-month covered-wagon crossing of ...

It took them four months. Rinker Buck talked about his book, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, about the importance of the Oregon Trail, the 2,000 mile road… read more Rinker Buck talked ...

The last documented year a team of riders and mules crossed the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon was 1909. A century later, writer and explorer Rinker Buck learned the astonishing fact that nearly ...

More than this, it is Rinker Buck’s description ... and complete history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present. It’s chock full of maps, photographs, diary excerpts ...

In the mid-1800s over half a million Americans migrated west in covered wagons along the Oregon Trail ... crossed the trail in a wagon in over a century — until Rinker Buck.

More than 400,000 pioneers crossed to the Pacific Coast in the 19th century via the Oregon Trial In 2011, Somerset Hills natives Rinker Bunk and his brother Nick took the journey themselves, via a ...

In his dedication, Rinker salutes his brother. "This book is for my brother, Nicholas McMahon Buck, who got us there with rare gumption and skill." "The Oregon Trail" is must reading for anyone in ...

The “lunatic notion” to attempt a 21st-century journey in a mule-drawn covered wagon along the historic Oregon Trail may have been embedded in Rinker Buck’s DNA. After all, it was a longer ...

to re-live the Oregon Trail today. Rivers, mountains, cliffs, runaway mules, cars and trucks, bad weather ... What could possibly go wrong? Journalist Rinker Buck wanted to find out. He and his ...

Book review: In this irresistible road-trip saga, two brothers and three mules show their mettle in the first "authentic crossing of the Oregon Trail" in a century. To Rinker Buck, "journey is all ...

Ross Reynolds interviews Rinker Buck about his new book,“The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey.” Buck and his brother took a mule-drawn wagon more than 2,000 miles over the path of the ...