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 WVEST.
h'arly vegetables, but too high alnd cold for corn
Near one side is a hot sulpl-ur spring —a great boil
ing caldron, covering an acre.
Ilalf a century ago, Lewis and Clark found and
noted this interesting and beautiful, hid-away mountain oasis, while hunting for the head waters of the
Columbia.
From a high cross range one can look back upon
the extended, yellow-colored desert Valley of the
Snake, for a hundred miles, and ahead to Walla Wall a.
Now upon the highest range of the Blue Mountains,
we pass down on their Pacifle slopes; the change is
agreeable. Nature begins to put on an improved
appearance; everything puts on a look fresher and
newer than before. The deep mountains, whose evergreen forests revealed picturesque landscapes and
the elements of more civilization, began to fix one's
appetite for some almost indispensable common
things elsewhere-of which, having been deprived, were unusually agreeable, especially that which
makes near neighbors of the outer and inner world,
the newspaper.
"We may live without poetry, music or books,
We may live without conscience, and live without heart
We may live without friends, we may live without books,
But civilized man cannot live without cooks."
We cross the head of the Umatela River Vailley,
whose head-waters and southern tributaries flow
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