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.

ELKHORN STATION.
pelriy, and the home of the adventurous trapper and
Indians.
When meat was needed, he would take his horses-one to ride, and the other with a hunter's pack
saddle, so made that quarters of meat could be hung'
up)on it-and go far away in the mountains for ells
and antelope, and never return without meat.
I asked him how it was possible for him to escape
the Indians? He said he always traveled on high
ground, on the ridges, that he could better see his
game and enemies; never allowed himself to be ambushed, and that the red-skins had long since learned, that to attack an old hunter, where he had a
chance, was sure death to some of their number. A
true mountain-man, he said, repudiated fear; he wcmoll
fight, even against superior numbers, for the Indian~;
had both fear and respect for a man who had deter
mined courage-who asked no quarter, and wouldl
neither give it to others. "Why," said he, "I oirce
made over a hundred of the brave Blackfoot Indians
run." "I How could that be possible?" I asked. "It
was a year when the coppered devils were unusually hostile, and took the top of the head off of every
white man they could catch. When out huntinrg on
a fleet hlorse, I suddenly came upon a war party of
them. I turned and ran, and they all chased me!"
Trappers usually ge to the lea(Ld of streams, fair up
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