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Summary: "The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand 'flatboat era' of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier. Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 BUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 977 BUCBuck, Rinker
Summary: Buck's epic account of 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-- tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015