A pretty good alternative title for this book could be borrowed from Bruce Weber’s documentary of Chet Baker, “Let’s Get Lost.” While a great deal of the original trail (“trails,” plural, is more accurate) still exists in something like its original state, much has been paved over, often by major Interstates. No one had attempted this arduous journey in more than a century, probably with good reason. Along with a different brother, Nick, he sets off to travel the length of the Oregon Trail - 2,000 miles and six states, from Missouri to Oregon - in old-world fashion: in a covered wagon with a team of mules. Buck, now in late middle age and late middle funk, heads west again in a bumpy and improbable manner.
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