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.
is not yet fully qualified; he must attend many
courses of lectures, go through many mysterious
performances before he is graduated aI)d allowed to
heal the sick, to prophesy, dream dreams, and give
victory to his people.
In that great characteristic of all ancient andi
mnodern civilization in which other barbarians hlave
not been so deficient, brave as he might be in battle,
skillful as he might be in the chase, stoical as he
mnight be under the most cruel torture, he will im
pose upon his squaw (wife) the most menial services;
would give her censure, and sometimes blows, instead of acts of assistance and words of affection.
Those tribes that had been long since favored with
a sprinkling of civilization seem to have not profited
in the least as it regards the treatment of their females, all slaves. The fabulous stories of civilization had not changed their simple hearts in this
regard. The Indian by nature is lordly and tyranilical in his treatment of women, often beating them
unmercifully, and sometimes those not of their own
household.
The tourist, through any of the tribes over the
country, will often see these degraded females
packed with all their worldly effects, (and perhaps
some of the younger members of the family also)
u)on;I her back when moving, while her great lord
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