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.
the fort, apparently to take observations. Thus the
battle continued through the entire day.
It was terrible work for the trappers. The burning sun of the plains shone on them, scorching them
to faintness. Their faces were begrimmed with powder and dust, their throats parched, and tongues
swollen with thirst, and their whole frames aching
from their cramped positions, as well as the excitement and fatigue of the battle.
But they dared not relax their vigilance for a moment. They were fighting for their lives, and they
meant to win. At length the sun set on that bloody
and wearisome day. Forty-two Camanches were
killed, and several more wounded, for the charge
had been repeated fifteen or twenty times.
The Indians drew off at nightfall to mourn over
their dead and hold a council. By this time they
must have realized that their medicines were not etfective, and came to the conclusion that the trapper's medicine possessed wonderful killing properties! When sable night had spread its shadows over
the embattled and now memorable mule-fort, the six
heroes who had contended successfully against a hundred brave Camanches, took each his blanket and
his gun, "thaikful for the bridge that carried them
safe over," they gave a hasty good-by to dead mules
and packs, and started on their return to camnp.
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