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.

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we go over to the Boulder Pass, and leave the fascinating park, to be remembered as a "joy for ever."
Soon we pass over low hills, through valleys, into a
succession of woods and open spaces as we gradually
ascend the mountains, affording fine views of portions
of the park. The road goes zigzag round and over
the mountain ranges, sometimes through rough seams
in the mountain sides, where fire and water seemed
to have been at work in time past, to overturn red,
brown and gray rocks; nature everywhere convulsed
and broken from her original beds and form, as if
here was the great supply warehouse and workshop
of creation. A few hours travel over them brought
us to the foot-hills along the plains, and we again wel.
come the new materials in the landscape, for we can
look once more far away over the plains to the east,
towards home and friends.
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