The Resource The Oregon Trail : a new American journey, Rinker Buck
The Oregon Trail : a new American journey, Rinker Buck
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The item The Oregon Trail : a new American journey, Rinker Buck represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City Libraries, City of Gold Coast.
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- Summary
- Spanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used it to emigrate West, the trail united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The trail years also solidified the American character: our plucky determination in the face of adversity, our impetuous cycle of financial bubbles and busts, the fractious clash of ethnic populations competing for the same jobs and space. At once an American journey, a work of history, and a personal saga, this book tells the story of Buck's 2,000-mile expedition across the plains. He was accompanied by three cantankerous mules, his boisterous brother, Nick, and an "incurably filthy" Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. Along the way, Buck dodges thunderstorms in Nebraska, chases his runaway mules across miles of Wyoming plains, scouts more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, crosses the Rockies, makes desperate fifty-mile forced marches for water, and repairs so many broken wheels and axels that he nearly reinvents the art of wagon travel itself. Apart from charting his own geographical and emotional adventure, Buck introduces readers to the evangelists, shysters, natives, trailblazers, and everyday dreamers who were among the first of the pioneers to make the journey west
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 450 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9781451659160
- Label
- The Oregon Trail : a new American journey
- Title
- The Oregon Trail
- Title remainder
- a new American journey
- Statement of responsibility
- Rinker Buck
- Subject
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- trueBrothers
- Buck, Rinker, 1950- -- Travel -- Oregon National Historic Trail
- trueCovered wagons
- trueFrontier and pioneer life
- trueFrontier and pioneer life -- The West (United States)
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- Historical reenactments -- Oregon National Historic Trail
- Nonfiction
- Oregon National Historic Trail
- trueOregon Trail
- trueOverland journeys to the Pacific
- trueThe West (United States)
- West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Spanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used it to emigrate West, the trail united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The trail years also solidified the American character: our plucky determination in the face of adversity, our impetuous cycle of financial bubbles and busts, the fractious clash of ethnic populations competing for the same jobs and space. At once an American journey, a work of history, and a personal saga, this book tells the story of Buck's 2,000-mile expedition across the plains. He was accompanied by three cantankerous mules, his boisterous brother, Nick, and an "incurably filthy" Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. Along the way, Buck dodges thunderstorms in Nebraska, chases his runaway mules across miles of Wyoming plains, scouts more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, crosses the Rockies, makes desperate fifty-mile forced marches for water, and repairs so many broken wheels and axels that he nearly reinvents the art of wagon travel itself. Apart from charting his own geographical and emotional adventure, Buck introduces readers to the evangelists, shysters, natives, trailblazers, and everyday dreamers who were among the first of the pioneers to make the journey west
- Award
- PEN New England Award for Nonfiction, 2016.
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
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- 10433167
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Buck, Rinker
- Dewey number
- 978
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- True
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- Buck, Rinker
- Historical reenactments
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Oregon National Historic Trail
- West (U.S.)
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- an American journey
- Label
- The Oregon Trail : a new American journey, Rinker Buck
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 450 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451659160
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
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- unmediated
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- rdamedia.
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9781451659160
- Label
- The Oregon Trail : a new American journey, Rinker Buck
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
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- text
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- cartographic image
- Content type code
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- txt
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- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 450 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451659160
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (Sirsi) i9781451659160
Subject
- trueBrothers
- Buck, Rinker, 1950- -- Travel -- Oregon National Historic Trail
- trueCovered wagons
- trueFrontier and pioneer life
- trueFrontier and pioneer life -- The West (United States)
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- Historical reenactments -- Oregon National Historic Trail
- Nonfiction
- Oregon National Historic Trail
- trueOregon Trail
- trueOverland journeys to the Pacific
- trueThe West (United States)
- West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
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