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.

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gratitude to a watchfil and guiding Providence, as
he reads the story of the settlement of Jamestown,
and notices so many selfsacrifices, hardships and
suffering endured with an unusual degree of the
most heroic fortitude. But as memory picks up
and binds together the exhausting journey of many
months, dangers and perils, exposed to hostile In dian tribes over arid deserts and bleak mountains,
I am compelled, as we stand here now and survey
this beautiful and rich country, to express the opinion that all history, both ancient and modern, may
be challenged to furnish an instance of colonization
more replete with difficulties overcome, fraught with
more discouragements sustained and submitted to,
as those which characterize the settlement of the
beautiful and productive valley of the Wallamet.
After several years of negotiations, which resulted
in the final adjustment of the territorial controversy,
to the neglect and injury of the settlers, a treaty
was concluded and signed at Washiiigton, Juine 15,
1846, and ratified at London, July 17, of the same
year.
The appearance on the Columbia of the United
States ship Stark, the same year, cheered the hearts
of the settlers, and upon seeing the stars and stripes
displayed, they were greeted by the spontaneous'
shouts of a people whose hearts were filletd with a
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