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.
never-melting snowv, and in warm weather Hood
River comes down cold from the melted snows of
the mnight) mountain. Its bight has been variously
estimated fromi f)lurteen to fifteen thousand feet. It
has been agitated by an occasional eruption simultaneously with earthquakes at Sail Francisco. Yet
it stands the same old watch-tower now that it did
many years ago when this strong, rapid, high-walled
and low-walled river, fifty years ago, carried the
yearly "brigade" of the Hudson Bay Comnpany,
bringing the annual accumulation of their hunting
and trapping from the interior country and Canada.
A- few years later it-looked down from its cloud-capp -d crest upon the Astor Expedition, suffering all but
d ath itself while crossing the ranges under its long
shadow in the cold and deep) snows of the mountain
ranges in winter. But twenty years ago, in its self
same majesty, it saw the yearly immigrations to
Oregon arriving at D.lles, traveled, destitute and
sick, late in the fall, slowly anid anxiously passing
down the river amid fearful rapids to the settlements.
It also saw many boatmen and immigrants dashed
to pieces in rapids and swallowed up in maddeniied
whirlpools, with the feeble means they had to float
over some of its inhospitable surface. These were
among the hazards and uncertainties of pioneer life;
but nowv the traveler can oilly dream of those early
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