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.
to thie 0th parallel east of the main Columbia-the
country for the most part is densely wooded, although
many valleys and open places occur, some of them
nlow occupied by settlers, and all presenting advan
tages for settlement. Down Clarke's Fork itself,
there are open patches of considerable size; and so
on the Kootenai River. North of the Spokane is a
large prairie, known as the Coeur d' Alene prairie,
through which the trail passes from Walla-Walla to
Lake Pend d' Oreille. This prairie contains some six
hundred square miles. * * * * * * *
"It is the country, therefore, between these two
great backbones of the Rocky Mountains, which I
now wish to describe; and especially will I first call
attention to that beautiful region whose streams,
flowing from the great semicircle of the Rocky Mountains before referred to, pass through a delightful
grazing and arable country, and find their confluence
in the Bitter Root River, opposite Hell, Gate.
From Big Hole Prairie, on the south, flows the
Bitter Root River, which has also a branch from the
southwest, up which a trail is muchi used by Iindians
and voyageurs passing to the Nez Perce country and
Walla-Walla. The Bitter Root Valley, above H'ellGate River, is about eighty miles long, and from
three to ten in width, having a direction north and
south from the sources of the Bitter Root River to
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