![]() ![]() Not only did it blaze the path for railroads that would connect the east and west coasts of the continent, it doubled the size of America. It was fifteen years before the American Civil War and changed America forever. ![]() When the trek was first made by Americans seeking the promise of a new life on the west coast, four hundred thousand people traveled those two thousand miles. It cuts through six states, starting in Missouri and ending in-as the name suggests-Oregon. The journey had not been made like this in a century when Rinker Buck decided to traverse the trail that spans two thousand miles. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck is a work of nonfiction about traveling the entire length of the Oregon Trail as it was first traveled by the American settlers moving west-in covered wagons pulled by mules. ![]()
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