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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INDIANS MAKE A RAID ON THE ROAD-A WEEK AT ELK
HORN STATION-THE HUNTER AND TRAPPER INCIDENTS IN HIS LIFE.
As usual, the Indians had made a dash on the road
the first of the season-in June, 1867-and more des perate than any before. The line was broken up for
sixty miles ahead, the stations burned. the stage
stock drawn off, and all killed that did not make their
escape. We were obliged to remain a week at a
stage station near old Fort Hallack, in the northern
part of Colorado, before a sufficient number of men
were collected to undertake an advance.
The Stage Company employ, through this out of
the way portion of the road, hunters whose business
it is to furnish meat for a certain number of stations.
They are either hired, or sell the meat by the pound
to them. Where we stopped, " Elkhorn Station," was
one of these hunters, by the name of Anderson, who
furnished within himself a goo I spec;m nti, the very
material ot which the heroes of the wilderness, mountains, traps and hunts, are made. Like Kit Carson,
all bone and muscle-a kind of grayhound constitution. Hie was one of those who had trapped and
hunted about and over the country for many years,
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