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.
tradition says was built three centuries ago. Tile
streets, like those of Santa Fe and other places,
are crooked and narrow, and like most townrs of
the kind, are usually filled with "Mexican" car riages. The donkey, about as large as a yearling
colt, serves for mule, horse, ox, cart and barouche.
He staggers like a runaway hay stack, under immense loads of grass and corn-stalks. He brings
from the mountains immense piles of wood for fuel.
He transports baggage and provisions of all kinds,
generally over the mountains and plains of the whole
country; indeed he is the commercial thoroughfare
every where. One man will pack a number of them,
called a packing train, and transport, often heavy
articles, hundreds of miles; but very few wheeled
vehicles in the country, those few are owned by
Americans. The Mexican has, from the first, carted
all his crops from the field to his cabin on the backs
of these little animals; few of them in their own
country ever had a harness upon them. These small
animals will take a load nearly as heavy as themselves
over long mountain ranges, following each other, in
Indian file, through the narrow trail, over most difficult and dangerous places, apparently with little
fatigue. Their endurance is quite remarkable. The
interior country is so destitute of wagon roads, that
there is no other way by whicn trade can be carried
()I between the settlements.
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