B.J. Hollars and his young son strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip to retrace the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America—and Americans—along the way.
B.J. Hollars and his young son strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip to retrace the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America—and Americans—along the way.
B.J. Hollars is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of numerous books, including Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds (Nebraska, 2017), Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail (Nebraska, 2021), Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country (Nebraska, 2019), Dispatches from the Drownings: Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction (New Mexico, 2014), This Is Only a Test, From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human (Nebraska, 2015), and Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America. Hollars is also the founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note Prologue 1. The Jumping-Off Point 2. Stubborn as Mules 3. Weathering the Storm 4. Faith and Consequences 5. Proceed with Caution 6. Recalculating the Route 7. The Ghosts of Emigrants Past 8. Small Kindnesses 9. The House Always Wins 10. Redrawing the Boundaries 11. The Gift 12. Reflecting Light Notes Bibliography
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note Prologue 1. The Jumping-Off Point 2. Stubborn as Mules 3. Weathering the Storm 4. Faith and Consequences 5. Proceed with Caution 6. Recalculating the Route 7. The Ghosts of Emigrants Past 8. Small Kindnesses 9. The House Always Wins 10. Redrawing the Boundaries 11. The Gift 12. Reflecting Light Notes Bibliography
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