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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magnificent work, thie Tirans-Continental Railway,
then excited the warm enthusiasm of their country men. The government recognized and appreciated
their services by giving them important public
offices, and Congress maae iarge grants of public
land to each.
It would seem right for an appreciative people
who are ever ready to reward real merit and ap preciate faithful service, to erect a suitable monu ment at some eligible point on the Pacific Railway,
to perpetuate in a substantial way the first practical
steps of this remarkable achievement. Their re port describes the Great Falls of Missouri as being
two thousand five hundred miles from St. Louis,
within the limits of the territory, (now Montana,)
just where it has since been found-a sublime spectacle, which, since the creation, has been lavishing
its magnificence upon a desert unknown to civilization.
Lewis found the river three hundred yards wide,
*down among precipitous rocks, with the water falling eighty feet. On the north the current was
broken by jutting rocks, and its spray rose in great
snowy clouds arched with rainbows. The stream
here is a series of descents in about thirteen miles
of cascades and rapids, having a fall of three hundred and eighty feet. The upper fall is forty feet,
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