Fitness Quote by Rinker Buck

“I still think of Oregon Trail as a great leveler. If, for example, you were a twelve-year-old girl from Westchester with frizzy hair, a…

— Sloane Crosley

My wife and I drove across America following the Oregon Trail, which the pioneers once passed along.

— Sandi Toksvig

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly…

— Norman Maclean

When people left on the Oregon Trail from St. Louis, they knew that only a fraction of them would make it to the West…

— John M. Grunsfeld

“I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my star further.”

— Anonymous

“On the trail, all I had to do was walk. It was up to me how far I wanted to walk and where I…

— Jennifer Pharr Davis

“The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they…

— John Haines

“Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat…

— Wallace Stegner

“The trains roared in on iron rails, bringing people from places he had never seen, taking them away to places he had only heard…

— Victoria Wilcox

“It was a masterpiece. Nobody bought it. (re: Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway, 1844) ”

— Anthony Bailey

“We stopped under a railroad bridge and got out of the car to admire the river that ran through the town.”

— Jeannette Walls

“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history books as…

— Ronald Geigle