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.
The middle and southern portion of the territory
contain large quantities of exceedingly rich land,
adapted to the cultivation of cotton, sugar, tobacco,
corn, sweet potatoes, peaches, fruit and vegetables,
The soil and climate is such as to grow in perfection
all that can be grown in the middle States; together
with many of the tropical fruits. The north and the
southseemto meet each other here in friendly em
brace, neither of them appear to be strayed or stolen
from their native homes.
As soon as the country can be made safe to the
settler and his property, as against the wandering
tribes of Indians, few places offer more inducements
for the emigrant than this, as to fertility of the soil
and climate. Here he may select almost any of the
different branches of farming, and if he does his part
(not very well) he is sure to succeed beyond his
first expectations. The red men here, who have a
light sprinkling of higher life, live in communities,
and cultivate the soil, raise remarkably good crops
for their very limited knowledge, and equally limited
means to do it with, or rather their squaws do it for
them.
These original inhabitants have been very hostile
to settlers and miners, making life and property un,
safe; driving from the country both Americans and
M(xicans. But since it changed owners, military
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