![]() ![]() “Even if your wheels break halfway across,” his editor told him, “There’s still a great book there.” In fact, the Buck brothers’ wheels did break, at South Pass on the continental divide in Wyoming they flipped their provisions cart in Nebraska and their axel snapped in two in eastern Oregon. They knew that their chances of failure were high. ![]() In 2011, writer Rinker Buck and his brother Nick set off to make an authentic covered wagon crossing of the 2,000-mile Oregon Trail. ![]() Today, amazingly, the trail is all but forgotten. In the 15 years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used the trail to emigrate West-scholars still regard this as the largest land migration in history-it united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. Spanning two thousand miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific coast, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. Join us for an evening with Rinker Buck - author of the Number 1 Indie Next Pick "The Oregon Trail." ![]()
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