That little sign hung on the back of the covered wagon that Rinker Buck and his brother Nick drove across the entire Oregon Trail in 2011. Thanks to the grit and muscles of three mules Buck had ...

The Oregon Trail follows a modern covered-wagon trip he took with his brother across the entire 2,100 miles of the trail in the summer of 2011, charting more or less the same path that sent some ...

A longtime journalist, Buck and his brother Nick traveled the 2,100-mile expanse of the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. Buck’s tale begins when he was sent out to do a story on the Kansas Flint ...

Following in the tracks of pioneers’ wagons Highway: The Oregon Trail runs through Idaho alongside Interstate 84, with a state park on the route where you can sleep in a covered wagon or tepee.

I HAD KNOWN LONG BEFORE I rode a covered wagon to Oregon that naïveté was the mother of adventure. I just didn't understand how much of that I really had. Nicholas and I realized before we left ...

Journalist Rinker Buck recounts his covered wagon-crossing of the famous route in his new book, "The Oregon Trail: An American Journey." ...

Anyone who’s gone to grade school in the last several decades knows this journey cold: You’re riding down the dusty Oregon Trail in your covered wagon, merrily fording streams and setting up ...

Along the glorious length of the Oregon Trail, and nowhere else, wagons maintain a certain primacy. “Interestingly, they never changed the law,” Buck says.

The Oregon Trail, meanwhile, is marked with signs likely to catch the eyes of even incurious drivers, emblazoned with the symbol of this region’s conquest: A covered wagon.

Lyft is no stranger to fun promotional tie-ins, and the latest celebrates 175 years of the Oregon Trail. This week, Lyft will offer covered wagon rides in downtown Portland, Oregon, free of charge ...

Pioneers in the old days definitely did not travel in the lap of luxury in their covered wagons, but that doesn’t mean you can’t.