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.

IDAHO.
is two hundred and sixty-five miles from Salt Lake
City. The Indians call it Poh-chu-lak-a-the gift
of the Great Spirit, and, like the red pipe stone
quarry, was too sacred a place to be contaminated
by white men; consequently their vigilance in guarding it. A party had been to see it a short time before, accompanied by a few soldiers at the station.
One of these consented to accompany us. The Rix
miles were made in an hour and a half over sand and
sage brush. The vapor arising from it can be seen
from the road when there is no wind. In this pure
morning air, where the discharge of a pistol will
make a report as great as a small cannon in low
country atmosphere, sound in this high mountain
country is conveyed as though made by a silvertongued bell hung high up in the ethereal dome.
We started in early morning, and had not proceeded far before the low, deep roar of the falls were
heard, and pillars (not of a great Roman Pantheon)
were rising up, but of clouds, or rather the blending
of them from the troubled waters down in the deep
caverns of rock. The mirage, before the sun is up,
is as much to be admired as the waterfall, a mirage
more wonderful than any I had witnessed in all my
desert and mountain wanderings, surpassing an ordinary desert mirage as much as the splendors of an
arctic night excel the clouds of a summer day. We
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