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.

BEYOND THE WEST.
such as may now be seen in the Agricultural Hall at
Albany, together with a wooden tooth drag, com pleted the implements of the most wealthy farmers.
His farming tools showed no improvement upon those
of his Aztec forefathers. Instead of our threshing
machines, some of them were treading out their
wheat with horses and oxen, as did the Israelites
three thousand years ago; others were pounding it
out with long clumsy poles upon the ground.
At that time the country was occupied wholly by
the low greaser Mexicans, who were jammed so full of
the law of gravitation they could never get above
the ground, a composition of negro and Mexican,
and a few quarter civilized Indians more, that were
as wild and ugly as some of their hunting grounds.
New Mexican settlements have a remarkably old
look. The adobe buildings, with small narrow windows, low doors and Hat roofs, suggest
"The events
Of old and wonderous times,
Which dim tradition interruptedly teaches."
About a hundred miles south-east of Santa Fe are
saline lakes, or salt marshes, supplying the whole
territory with salt; near them are found the ruins
of a city, the remains of an aqueduct several miles
long. walls of churches, Castilian coats of arms, probably a silver mining town destroyed two centuries
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