Rinker Buck’s “The Oregon Trail” is a rollicking account of the author’s 2010 trek across the country, retracing the steps of the Oregon Trail pioneers. Buck will appear Tuesday July 28 at Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Co.
‘The Oregon Trail: An American Journey’
by Rinker Buck
Simon & Schuster, 450 pp., $30
First there was de Tocqueville, trekking a newborn land. Later came Steinbeck, Kerouac and William Least Heat-Moon, famously describing their own journeys around the country. And now comes Rinker Buck with his own westward-ho version of same, “The Oregon Trail: An American Journey.