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 WEST.
ranges to the head waters of the Columbia and followed it to the ocean..It was a remarkable undertaking at the time, full of the wildest romance adti
adventure over the then untrodden continent by
white men. The little band were scouts of the grand
army now after the " Golden Fleece." and the conquest of half a hemisphere-the armly of civiliza
tion.
The adventurous explorers traveled along rivers
in rafts, and in small boats of their'own construction, sometimes propelled by sails, oars and towlines, and upon the land on horseback and on foot.
They were the first white men to see the Great Falls
of the Missouri and go through the gateways of the
great mounIDtains, aI)d to discover and explore the
great River of the West, pass all its whirlpools and
rapids to its inhospitable entrance with the sea.
After an absence of over two years they once
mnore returned to the place from whence they
started, but not as they went out, neatly shaven awtl
in broadcloth; they looked at themselves, and the
inhabitants gazed at them, who had long been given
up as dead; deceived at first sight by their clothing of skins and swarthy faces, supposing them to
be the wildest of all the Indians. R'p Van Winkle's resurrection, both a- to himself and his old
neighbors, evaporates into thin air at the first warmn
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