"LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI: AN EPIC AMERICAN ADVENTURE" by Rinker Buck (Avid Reader Press, 320 pages, $32). When Rinker Buck, the Tennessee-based author of "Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American ...

What: Book signing of “The Oregon Trail,” by Rinker Buck. When: 6 p.m. Thursday. Where: The Bookworm of Edwards. Cost: $10, includes appetizers and a cash bar. More information: Call 970-926-READ.

If you want to grow up to be an adventurer, it helps to have an adventurous childhood. Author Rinker Buck grew up in New Jersey, one of 11 children living "a normal middle-class life" — or it would ...

What: Life on the Mississippi with Rinker Buck When: Monday, August 22, 6 p.m. Where: The Bookworm of Edwards, 295 Main St., unit C101 Edwards, CO 81632 Cost: $10, purchase online or at the Bookworm ...

The old saw “The devils are in the details” is carried to a high level by dreamers Rinker and Nicholas Buck. Unlike many dreamers their dreams don’t get in the way of practicality and can-do attitudes ...

Ted reviews Rinker Buck's "Life on the Mississippi", a blend of history and adventure. Rinker Buck built a replica 19th Century flatboat, and sailed down the Mississippi River with his brother. "Life ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Rinker Buck is an Author with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2015 Speech. Most common tag: U.S. History. Authors Jeff Guinn, Brian Castner ...

To Rinker Buck, "journey is all" when he and his brother Nick leap onto the seat of a covered wagon to take on a contemporary "crazyass" crossing of the Oregon Trail. But for readers, "The Oregon ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A flatboat made to resemble those in the 19th century took author Rinker Buck down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He writes ...

In the mid-1800s over half a million Americans migrated west in covered wagons along the Oregon Trail. They were searching for riches, claiming land and fleeing religious persecution. But no one had ...

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Rinker Buck is as fine a storyteller as anyone writing today. His most recent book, “Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure,” chronicles his trip down the Mississippi River in a modern ...