Chapter I: Front Matter

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.

INTO MEXICO WITH GENERAL SCOTT

LOST WITH LIEUTENANT PIKE

GENERAL CROOK AND THE FIGHTING APACHES

OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK

WITH CARSON AND FRÉMONT

DANIEL BOONE: BACKWOODSMAN

BUFFALO BILL AND THE OVERLAND TRAIL

CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH

DAVID CROCKETT: SCOUT

ON THE PLAINS WITH CUSTER

GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49

WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS

WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON INTO THE WILDERNESS

IN THE RANKS OF OLD HICKORY

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