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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reprinted from THE OREGON TRAIL: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY by Rinker Buck with permission of Simon ... he handed me a foldout map published by the National Park Service, and I followed along as he ...

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 ...

Gregory Crouch’s review of Rinker Buck’s “The Oregon Trail” (Books, Aug. 1) properly emphasizes the superior value of mules versus horses as motive power for hauling covered wagons overland.

An epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned ... Today, amazingly, the trail is all but forgotten.Rinker Buck is no stranger to grand adventures.