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.
strictly honorable to himself, and worthy of his
magnanimous purpose. Hlis wonderful perseverance
under such opposing circumstances during those
long and gloomy years, will descend in the undying
archives of time. Finally, the penetrating vision
and magnanimity of Queen Isabella resolved to favor
the undertaking, and requested that Columbus might
be sent to her. Yet she hesitated, knowing that her
husband, who would be "Lord and Master," opposed
the enterprise, and that the royal treasury was nearly drained by long and expensive war. But with
true woman's earnestness of purpose and grandeur
(,f soul, she said: " I undertake the enterprise for my
owni (crown, regardless of an opposing husband or
anything else, and will p)le(lge my jewvels to raise
the necessary funds."
Hle who will oppose "Woman's Rights" (whenl
right) hathi no soil in his heart for the growth of
just antd liberal principles. Let us take through
tic ekets-not to cross the Continent-but the great
ulikuown ocean spread out by God arouiid the globe,
not to separate, but to unite the Hluman Fiamily, beiiig the only means of intercourse between regions
so distant. We go beyond the then known limits of
thie world to discover and make known to the Old
World the New. Leaving behind our agreeable
homes, with all their happy surroundings, our ex
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