“A virtuoso storyteller in a very American vein” (Phillip Lopate), Rinker Buck reads his epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way—in a covered wagon with a team o
From “a virtuoso storyteller in a very American vein” (Phillip Lopate), The Oregon Trail is an epic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a
The classic coming-of-age memoir from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Oregon Trail, about a special time in every young adult’s life—the first “real” job out
The #1 New York Times bestseller: Rinker Buck’s “awe-inspiring…charming, big-hearted, impassioned…fun to read” (The Boston Globe) account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned
The author describes how he and his brother, then teenagers, piloted a plane across the United States and how their landmark flight drew them closer to each other and to their father, a stunt flyer. R
On March 21, 2003, while leading a rifle platoon into combat, Marine Lieutenant Shane Childers became the first combat fatality of the Iraq War. In this gripping, beautifully written personal history,
