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.

CHAPTER XXXI.
fRE ROAD FROM CHEYENNE CHURCH BUTE-UP AND
OVER A WILDERNESS OF MOUNTAIN RANGES UPON
THE SUMMIT-DOWN THE PACIFIC SLOPE-RE MARKABLE ROCK FORMATIONS-ECHO
CANYON-WEBER VALLEY-MOR MON SETTLEMENTS.
I am here; there is no mistake about that, with
one of the very best pro.pects of my remaining
for some time to come. Day after day, here, close
under the high, broad mountains, among the childhills about "Elkhorn Station,"' the battle was renewed, not with Indians, but with mosquitoes. It
would seem that they had been whetting their needles on a smooth mountain peak hard by, anticipating
our stay. Washington Irving iilfbrmq us that a
certain people in early timne, on thle Hu(lson River,
all fell to smoking to hide their little settlement
from Yankee depredations, and have them pass on
without being discovered; in which they were sulccessful, so completely did they envelop the town
with the smoke of their large, well-filled pipes.
When we enveloped ourselves in a cloud of sm(o e
the enemy's forces would fall balk, but as so(on as
our smoked forms came ouit to view, mountaiuts that
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