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.

CHAPTER XXIII.
WYOMING TERRITORY.
This comparatively newv territory, was mostly ta ken from the southern part of IMontana, and is about
as large as Colorado, and lies wholly within the moun tain ranges. Bounded by the Rocky Mountains on
the west, and the various ranges of the Black Hills
starting from its southern border, penetrate the en tire territory to the Northeast. It had a few years
ago an infant organization as a territory, with but a
very little population-more to give a few aspirants
place and profit, than necessity. It had neither agriculture nor mining; consequently, no population
previous to building the Railway, which has now
imparted to it settlement, and some notoriety.
The new railroad town of Cheyenne is the ornly settlemeut of any importance, and is the Capitol of the
Territory, situated a little out from the mountains
on the naked plain, six thousand feet above sea level.
It has already assumed an air of permanency, and
taken on the hopes of promise. After" Hell," as the
end town of the railroad was called, moved on it,
was a very important question, whether to be or not
to be-whether the place was truly anything or noth
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