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.

I'HE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.
ry-)s of the early mot-tling suin, when compared with
the wonderful achievement of these resurrected
men from an untknown savage land.
Going o,ut they made the distance from the mouth
of the Missouri to the month of the Columbia, four
thousand one hundred and thirty-four miles. Tihe'
returned by a nearer route, shortening it to three
thousand five hundred miles.
Clark was a Kentuckian, belonging to a family of
the first settlers, whose familiarity with Indian warfare and character especially fitted him for this undertaking. He was the military director, while
Lewis applied himself principally to scientific investigation. Subsequently Clark was made Brigadier General, Governor of Missouri Territory, an.d
Superintendent of Indian Affairs under President
Monroe. He held the last position until his death
in St. Louis, in 1838.
Lewis was a native of YViginia, had been in
the army, and afterwards Private Secretary to President Jefferson. In 1809 hbe was appointed Governoi
of Missouri Territory. He found that quiet life unendurable, and fell by his own hand at a Tennessee
inn, at the early age of thirty-five.
The unflinching perseverance and daring of these
explorers, saeit forth in obedience to the first nrational instinct, wlhich has now culminated in that
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