![]() ![]() ![]() The three mules are also characters in the book, and the trip couldn't have been made with any other type of animal to pull the wagon. ![]() The brothers are both type A personalities, but they soon realize only one can be "trail boss"-and that is Rinker. Nick turns out to be very handy as a mechanic and woodworker, as well as a fine mule handler, and great companion to Rinker. Rinker's brother informs him that he is going along as well. Clearly the author has unresolved issues with his past, but he doesn't dwell too much on these-he lives for the moment on the trail. When Rinker decides as an adult to take a wagon and mule trip from MO to Oregon, following the Oregon Trail, his dead father "visits" him several times along the trail. The memories stood out among other not-so-nice memories of his father. Rinker Buck's father had taken his young family on a covered wagon trek in New England when Rincker was a boy. ![]()
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