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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BEYOND THE WEST.
been re-enacted so often from early time to the
presetit.
This devout and faithful disciple, together with
his amiable wife, had labored with these natives,
and been a father and mother to themn for elevei
long years, and the very ones they had taken in the
Mission, and almost into the family, when the dreadful time came were among the first brutes to dip
their hands in the blood of their benefactors.
Doubtless, the reader remembers the horrible tragedy
enacted at this mission, together with others in
Northern Oregon about this time. There seemed
to be a combination among the tribes to drive or
exterminate the whites from their country, as they
claimed. A detailed narration of the horrors of the
Waiilatput massacre, together with the individual
sufferings of the captives whose lives were saved,
would fill at volume as large as this.
It is my purpose to give these people only a
passing notice, and to give a few characteristic
features as they impressed themselves upon my
mind, and then leave them. As to the Indians'
moral nature, that is nearly alike everywhere, with
few exceptions; all are cruel and treacherous. His
gospel is literally the "gospel of blood." "An eye
for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." Vengeance is
his first commandment, and indeed so is the Chlristian's whole di-calog'le.
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