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.

EASTERN OREGON.
distant settlements. Explorations already made are
sufficient to demonstrate the fact that Eastern Oregon, like Idaho and Montana, contains a mineral
wealth of gold, silver, copper, lead, cinnabar and
plumbago, which will give it prominence and a
coming prosperity.
Notwithstanding human life, through all this isolated great country, is like a gambler's moneymighty uncertain-the hard, uncomfortable way of
travel, the deprivations and sleepless nights; yet
there seems to be an indescribable something, I
must confess, that attaches one to it, invites the sunburnt, and sometimes from broadcloth to buckskin
traveler, to prolong his, perhaps, already too long
wanderings. It is not difficult for one who has spent
some time in any of these mountain regions, to realize the reluctance with which old mountain men
leave this kind of uncivilized life.
Once at Walla Walla, the past is only of memory,
and the ready and willing steamer is ready to take
you on down the Columbia,
"Through forest dark, and mountains rent in twain,"
to the bosom of its great mother, the ocean, whose
blue waves have rolled in for unnumbered centuries
to welcome this savage yet magnificent river. It
extends its long arms northerly to British America,
and far up in the Rocky MIlountains through Idaho;
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