A review by asurges
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck

5.0

I wish Goodreads had two rating categories: how the work stands and how much I liked it as a reader. This is one of those books. I can't not give it five stars: Rinker Buck (and how much do we love that name?) is a good writer, and he takes a ton of information about the Oregon Trail--which he and his brother covered in 2010, in an authentic covered wagon pulled by three mules--and makes the information easy to read and follow. And it's interesting stuff, like dysentery and people dying on the trail and how there's a whole Mormon group that does an Oregon Trail camp, etc.

However, I think I like more emotional memoirs, the kind that dig deeper. Just my thing.

Good book, though. I gave it to my dad, who read it quickly and enjoyed it immensely.