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.

B3EYOND THE VEST.
River, over a low and easy divide, across which
Lieut. Mullan with his party moved on Dec. 31, 1853.
"Moving down this valley fifteen miles, we come
to a most beautiful prairie known as the Deer Lodge,
a great resort for game, and a favorite resting place
for Indians-mild through the winter, and affording inexhaustible grass the year rouiid. There is
a remarkable curiosity in this valley-the Boiling
Springs-which have been described by Lieut. Mullan. This Deer Lodge Prairie is watered by many
streams; those coming from the east, having their
sources also in the Rocky Mountain divide, and those
coming from the west in the low, rolling and open
country intervening between the Hell-Gate and Bitter Root Rivers.
" The Little Blackfoot, which has been referred to,
is one of the most important streams on the line of
communication through this whole mountain region.
It has an open, well-grassed and arable valley, with
sweet cotton-wood on the streams, and pine generally on the slopes of the hills; but the forests are quite
open, and both on its northern and southern slopes
there is much prairie country. The Little Blackfoot
River furnishes two outlets to the country to the east.
It was the southern one of these passes, connecting
with the southern tributary of the Prickly Pear
Creek, that Mr. Tinkham passed over in 1853. fiad
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