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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey 

byRinker Buck

Rinker Buck uses The Oregon Trail to explore the new american journey, moving beyond a simple overview to reveal the forces working underneath. Drawing on archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, the narrative gives The Oregon Trail a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the new american journey becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within history and travel. The Oregon Trail ultimately offers a nuanced guide to the evidence, the human stakes, and the consequences that make this subject worth revisiting.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication date

Jun 07, 2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

464

ISBN

9781451659177