You actually still see the terrain or the Snake River cliffs and everything the same way the pioneers saw them. The trail diverts away from the highway for long stretches in part but there are many, many sites throughout Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon that you can still drive right up to in your car. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey: Buck, Rinker: 9781451659160: : Books Skip to main content. In Wyoming, you can see places like the Guernsey ruts the original ruts, Fort Laramie, which was a major trading post, and Independence Rock in central Wyoming-all of these are accessible by highway. A major bestseller that has been hailed as a quintessential American story (Christian Science Monitor), Rinker Bucks The Oregon Trail is an epic account. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey Buck, Rinker on . He is the author of The Oregon Trail as well as the acclaimed memoirs Flight of Passage and First Job. The Pony Express route followed the Oregon Trail. When you get to Gothenburg, Nebraska, you can see the Pony Express exhibit and see a real Pony Express station. Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books many layers in The Oregon Trail are linked by Mr. If you take, for instance, Route 30 on the north side of the Platt across Nebraska you can stop at a wonderful museum in the town of Carney in the Archway, which is a magnificent covered wagon museum and there are lots of trail sites around.

Buck: Don’t buy the mules yet, Arthur, okay? It’s a wonderful irony that here’s this trail that covered some of the most remote country that we have and it hasn’t changed that way, but it’s very accessible in spots.

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