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 THE WEST.
still wander about this forbidding tract, sometimes
painted in true old Indian style with pulverized red
chalk, giving them a more hideous and repulsive
appearance than savages generally.
The stage stations are built of blocks of lava
pierced with holes, for the use of arms to repel Indian warfare. Through all this great country every
man's cabin is truly his castle, and he himself must
defend it.
The comnas-plant, with little blue flowers and small
brown leaf, with a bulb like an onion, is found here,
which the Indians dig and subsist on during the
winter. Some of the ravines were quite covered
with a plant called kinnikinic, a species of the real
tobacco plant, which, in its young growth, it resembles largely. Tile Indians and others, when out of
other tobacco, use this as a very good substitute for
the cultivated kind; when dried and pulverized, it
has the aroma of the noxious weed. Some distance
east of the road is the great Comas prairie, rich and
easy of irrigation from the mountain which encloses
it, as the Mahlad River threads;ft,, and like Humboldt and Carson, after running hundreds of miles,
sinks like the waters of Damascus.
We were anxious to visit Shoshonee Patlls, of
Snake River, but four miles west of the road station,
which few white men Lad seen previous to 1867, and
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