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 TH]E WEST.
for some twenty six miles below the lake, where rapids occur during low water. Steamboats could ascend from this point to a point nine miles above the
lake, or eighty miles in all. At high water they
could ascend much farther. Between the Cabinet
(twenty-five miles above the lake) and a point seventy-five miles below the lake, (a total distance of one
hundred and forty miles,) the only obstacle which
occurs is where the river is divided by rocky islands,
with a fall of six and a-half feet on one side. The
valley of Clarke's Fork is generally wide, arable, and
inviting settlement, though much of it is wooded.
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From the divide of the Rocky Mountains to the
divide of the Bitter Root Mountains, there is an intermediate region, over one-third of which is a cultivable area; and a large portion of it is prairie
country, instead of a wooded or mountain country.
The following estimate gives in detail the areas of
arable land, so far as existing information enables it
to be computed: In the region watered by the Bitter Root River and its tributaries, not including HellGate, the prairie region may be estimated at three
thousand square miles; in that watered by the HellGate and its tributaries, including the whole country
south and west to the Bitter Root, but not including
tie Big Blackfoot, there is a prairie region of two
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