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.

CHAP TER II.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.
Kind reader, as our outfit (always familiar on the
borders of civilization, beyond which the traveler
must carry everything he needs on the journey) as
yet is so incomplete, and being far away from an
outfitting centre, we are quite unprepared to start
on the long travel before us, consequently you are
invited first to go with me through an address on
the Discovery of the American Continent; after
which, should we be in good humor with each
other and ourself, we will give our friends and relatives a long farewell for the next year and a half
and begin our travel beyond the old West and where
the new begins, and journey towards the setting
sun to where that great luminary seems to retire
for the night-far out iu the Pacific Ocean. Our
theme includes a most prominent period in human
affairs-is full and rich with interesting useful
thought. The discovery of America and the circumstances with which it is surrounded may be considered one of the most extraordinary events in the
annals of the world.
As memory binds together time's different peri
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