The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey — How Movement Becomes Infrastructure
What looks like a vanished pioneer road is still shaping how people, goods, energy, and information move across the American West.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck as our lens, this episode follows Buck’s modern mule-drawn crossing while investigating the trail as an adaptive mobility network rather than a fixed historical route.
Buck’s journey reconnects personal and family history with the physical uncertainty of overland travel. It also reveals how apparent self-reliance depended…
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