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

Loud roared the dreadful thunder,

The rain a deluge show’rs;

The clouds were rent asunder

By lightning’s vivid pow’rs.

The night both drear and dark

Our poor devoted bark,

Till next day

There she lay,

In the Bay of Biscay O!

It was a strange song to sing out here in the midst of the dry plains; but with Bill booming and his comrades joining in the chorus it sounded particularly good.