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.
"You were not very compassionate towards each
other in the mountains.'
"That war not our business. We had no time for
such things. Besides, live men war what we wanted;
dead ones war of no account."
It would often seem to me that live men were also
of little accouit, by the wanton recklessness with
which it was often taken. To the unsophisticated,
the savage way by which real or imaginary injuries were redressed often by these veterans of the
mountains, would freeze up any warm, sympathetic
heart. These men get so in the habit of killing that
it seems but little to them whether a man or a buffalo is killed. It is the object of mountain men to
keep their hearts "big," and not to remember the
miserable fate of some of their comrades.
While meditating one day upon the certain fate
that awaits the buffaloes, I strolled unconsciously
away and wrote thus:
"It is generally supposed and familiarly said that
a man falls into a reverie; but I seated myself in a
shade a few minutes and resolved to force myself into
one, and for this purpose I laid open a small pocket
map of North America, and excluding my thoughts
from every other object in the world, I s(,on succeeded in producing the desired illusion. This little chart over which I benit was seen in all its parts,
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