BUFFALO BILL AND THE
OVERLAND TRAIL


The American Trail Blazers

“THE STORY GRIPS AND THE HISTORY STICKS”

These books present in the form of vivid and fascinating fiction, the early and adventurous phases of American history. Each volume deals with the life and adventures of one of the great men who made that history, or with some one great event in which, perhaps, several heroic characters were involved. The stories, though based upon accurate historical fact, are rich in color, full of dramatic action, and appeal to the imagination of the red-blooded man or boy.

Each volume illustrated in color and black and white.


[AS LAME BUFFALO HAD SAID, THE “LITTLE ONE” SHOT THE STRAIGHTEST OF ANY]


BUFFALO BILL
AND THE
OVERLAND TRAIL

BEING THE STORY OF HOW BOY AND MAN WORKED HARD AND PLAYED HARD TO BLAZE THE WHITE TRAIL, BY WAGON TRAIN, STAGE COACH AND PONY EXPRESS, ACROSS THE GREAT PLAINS AND THE MOUNTAINS BEYOND, THAT THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC MIGHT EXPAND AND FLOURISH

BY
EDWIN L. SABIN

AUTHOR OF “WITH CARSON AND FRÉMONT,”
“ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER,” ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CHARLES H. STEPHENS
AND A PORTRAIT

I hear the tread of pioneers

Of nations yet to be—

The first low wash of waves where soon

Shall roll a human sea.

—Whittier.

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY


COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

SEVENTEENTH IMPRESSION

PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


TO THE

OLD-TIME PLAINS FREIGHTERS

WHO UNDER THE ROUGH TITLE, “BULL WHACKERS,” PLODDING AT THREE MILES AN HOUR, BRIDGED WITH THEIR CANVAS-COVERED SUPPLY WAGONS THE THOUSAND HOSTILE MILES WHICH SEPARATED DESTITUTION FROM PLENTY