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.

WESTERN OREGON.
nine te'iths of the lawv) by a foreign go
take upon themselves the deprivations
of the way and settlement, is unp
the history of America, and, perhaps, i
Aside from any right we had to Orego
discovery, exploration, cession and conti
possession of the country was needed to
title indisputable. Nothing was comp
it, and this the early immigrants to Or
in favor of the nation, in the presence
and subjects of a princess claiming to
exercised, a sovereign jurisdiction over
able to crush out the rising colony, eitl
or by refusing them such supplies in th
condition as were indispensable to thei
They occupied the extraordinary and
anomalous position of a people who, wit
either renounced their country, or bee
by it, were nevertheless without one.
We have already said all and more t
intended to say of New England sho
mind runs unbridled, and we are dwellin
than fond reverence upon the history or
fathers, who established a State without
lasting (we hope) than the rock upon
disembarked. The heart of the philan
patriot swells with just and honorabl
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