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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life mean to them? What are their joys and sorrows, their fears? hopes and ambitions? What real
benefit are they to the world for being in it? All
their desires seeIn to be centered in one, and that
in a voracious appetite. He seems to know nothing but his stomach-to get all he can and devour
it. The Indian judges all things by material results;
and when he heeds the teachings of Christianity, it
is to better his physical, rather than his spiritual
condition, for of the latter he has a very feeble conception-only so far as he can better his animal existence. Hence, his attentiveness to the white man's
preaching about his wonderful religion, while the Indian desired such a material Heaven, as he could imagine from his earthly experience. Heaven was to
him a land of plenty; therefore, the most he could
desire was to go where there would be none oif his
bodily wants unsupplied. This reasoning is natural; the bodymust be supplied by civilization, before the wants of the soul can be developed and appreciated, for it is the unchangeable law of Nature
and of God. Into this error the Missionaries fell,
who went early among the Indian tribes of the Mountains. They taught religion first, and every day matters of life afterward-and failure was the result.
My experiences with these people were both unpleasant and agreeable. A little unpleasant, and al
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