When the circus bear, Oregon, decides that he wants to go home to the big forest, he enlists the help of a dwarf named Duke. With very little money and no lugga

A new American journey.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycles across two continents and delves deeply into his own bea

Duke, a circus dwarf, takes Oregon, a circus bear, back home to Oregon.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second largest Chinese population in the United States. In terms of geograp