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.

AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF COLORADO. 115
National and individual wealth will yet be found
in the grazing capabilities of these plains, spread
out as they are, from five to six hundred miles across,
and about fifteen hundred miles in length, from
Montana to Mexico. The time is now not far distant
when the shepherd will be tending his flocks on the
plains, and herds of cattle will take the place of
nature's men, and the herds of buffalo which are
their support. They will have no further occasion
to extend their arms, in praise and gratitude to the
Great Spirit in the sun, for the freedom of their existaece on this big clearing. The Indians are nowv
the only hindrance to the easy and profitable farm
inig business here. When the country can be made
safe, as against their depredations, the energetic
capitalist will find here a large field for his cattle
and sheep, not literally upon a "thousand hills," but
scattered over the extended and extensive plains;
not only a source of wealth to him, but also to
Colorado and the country at large. Though the red
man has rights, which the white man's government
is bound to respect, yet to allow him longer to hold
possession of this otherwise profitable region would
be a great sacrifice even for a Christian to make.