Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

THE MIDDLE PARK.
animnals will not only live, but they grow fat upon it,
which is the only real use this park will give the
white man, but it is the Eden of the Ute Indiars;
here they can extend their arms and thank God for
the freedom of their existence. Here in the midst
of the mountains, unmolested, where wild game and
fish are within their reach, away from any path of
civilization, they continue to live as the free children
of nature.
In a romantically pleasant spot I found about a
hundred lodges, a village of the Ute Indians, on the
bank of Grand River, near the Hot Spring. The
dogs were the only party that gave us a fighting
greeting. We knew them friendly, and I had had
experience enough with them to know that once in
their village, on their hospitality, all danger was
passed while with them. Begging and good fellowship was manifest everywhere, always "heap hungry,"
ever begging. Yet mountain and streams are at
your disposal, should they be needed. They never
forget to ask for (tea cup) biscuit, they will exchange
any thing they have for this or flour. As I intend
to devote a chapter in this work to the red man and
his family I leave them for the present.
The Hot Springs of this park are the principal attraction, together with good hunting and fishing,
and with an unusually healthy air, makes it an
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