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.
Ild not, or would not live awayi from the wi(ld
the m(i n te ans.
was one of those few survivors of that someaysterious class of old mountaineers which
d in our imaginations more than reality; who
king cy(-lopedi(ls of almost mysterious escapes
citing a(iventnu res-unhounud volumes of travdent and ro)mn,nce. Buffalo hunts; desperate
ters with) grizzly bears; remarkable wandern ong the mountains when lost; without food;
lous endura,ince and hlairdships; hand to hand
in in dcaily fights with Indians-but hlie even
deen captured after so many hairbreadth esrom oitwvnrdl enemies.
ike m;,,y others of the kind, had been suse to the (harms of these dusky beauties of
ains artd plains, had set up for himself a wiekys family Imal. This is the only authority acdged l)y ai old mountaineer. She usually conin the lodge, (log house nowv,) regardless of
d's bluster ou:side. He was the traveler's
can Fiur Company, and I took gree,t ple-asure
ting his cabin, as he hal a retentive men0old rela,te the most interesting portions oi his
in life —while we at the East roamed the
y in imagination, only as tlhat great cou)ltry
b the Wels vwhere the fiur trader went for his
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