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.

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THE ROAD FROM CHEYENNE.
Bute is an unsliapely mountain of b
hundreds of feet high, covered partl
posed sandstone, while other portio
appearance of a vast cathedral in a
badly ruined greatness; solid and c]
small and large towers, smooth and st
mids, whole and broken; recesses hold
figures. Time's pitiless elements h
this soft rock a wonderful variety of
rious and interesting.
None of the accounts of travel see
scribe the many remarkable peculi
mountains, (neither do I think they
and those general characteristics w
tainous regions have in common. A
the road the tourist is introduced
equally strange and remarkable. No
tion can picture the piled-up ma
wildness that may be seen in trav
most desolate and yet most interest
our continent; a panorama of grand
beauty such as pen and pencil can ne
As we pass on up towards the more
the nights grow very c,ld, while tie
like an Italian summer. While pas
of these ranges the cold was severe,
look down upon a sunny valley wa
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