This week's guest on REPORT FROM SANTA FE is Rinker Buck, author of the #1 New York Times best-selling book "The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey."

“The Oregon Trail” is an epic account of Buck’s four-month adventure, traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way—in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn’t been attempted in a century. It also chronicles the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.

Rinker Buck, a prize-winning journalist, is no stranger to grand adventures. His first travel narrative, Flight of Passage, was hailed by The New Yorker as “a funny, cocky gem of a book,” and, with The Oregon Trail, he brings the most important route in American history back to glorious and vibrant life. “The Oregon Trail” has been well received, becoming a #1 New York Times Bestseller, #1 Indie Next Pick, Amazon and Apple Best of the Month.

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-“Part Laura Ingalls Wilder, part Jack Kerouac, “The Oregon Trail” is an idiosyncratic and irresistible addition to the canon of American road-trip literature.” -- George Howe Colt

“This smart, endearing book is not just about a picaresque and probably ill-advised adventure; it’s a story about us—who we are and how we came to be that way. As he makes his two thousand-mile pilgrimage by cussed mule across the dusty continent, Rinker Buck finds his way deep into our nation’s DNA.” -- Hampton Sides, author, Blood and Thunder and Americana