The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's "The Oregon Trail" is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Orego…

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