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.

CHAPTER XXV.
IDAHO-SHOSHONEE FALLS-BOISE CITY-IDAHO CITY
-OWYHEE QUARTZ MILLS-CHARACTERISTIC
FEATURES OF THE COUNTRY, &C.
This territory, since the division which now comDrises Idaho, (an Indian word, signifying "the gem
of the mountains,") lies wholly on the Pacific side of
the Rocky Mountains, the water-shed forming its
easterly boundary, and dividing the head waters of
tune Columbia from the head waters of the Missouri.
The road from Salt Lake City is the same to Montana or Idaho as to Bear River Junction, a distance of
one hundred and forty miles. There roads branch
northwest and northeast. Taking the left branch,
the traveler very soon finds himself in Idaho, surrounded with vast rolling wastes of sand deserts,
sage brush and volcanic debris scattered profusely
over the country. The old granite rocks had been
boith literally and truly turned inside out by subterranean forces far down in the deep bowels of the
earth. This portion of the territory is interesting
only for the magnificently broken surface and uninbabitableness, dreary and forbidding for the uses of
civilized life. A few half-starved, degraded Utes
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