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.

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thousand five huiidred square miles; in that watered by the Big Blackfoot and its tributaries, the prairie region is one thousand three hundred square
miles. The country watered by the Flathead River,
down to its junction with the Bitter Root, and thence
down Clarke's Fork to the Cabinet, has a prairie
region of two thousand five hundred square miles.
The country watered by the Kootenai has two thousand square miles of prairie. Thus we have, in
round numbers, eleven thousand three hundred
square miles of prairie land. The whole area of
the mountain region, (from the divide of the Rocky
Mountains to the divide of the Bitter Root, and from
45 deg. 30 min. to 49 deg.) is about thirty thousand
square miles; and it will be a small estimate to put
tile arable land of the prairie and the forest at twelve
thousand square miles. Thus, the country in the
Forks of the Flathead and Bitter Root, stretching
away east above the Blackfoot Canyon, is mostly table land, well watered and arable; arid on all these
tribitaries-the Bitter Root, the Hell-Gate, the Big
Blackfoot, the Jocko, the Hot Spring River, the Maple River, and the Lou-Lou Fork itself-the timberland will be found unquestionably better than the
prairie land. It will not ba, it; the immediate bottom or valley of the river whlere farmers will find
their best locations, but on the smaller tributaries
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