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.
them the white mantle of perpetual snow and covei
their heads with the clouds. Many of these peaks
are torn and furrowed to their center, and sonme times cleft asunder from top to bottom. What
meditated thoughts come to us as we stand here and
view these mountain summits! Century after cen tury upon their naked heads has rested the closed
hand of silence, unimpressible both to summer sun.
shine and rigid winter's strength.
We were fortunate to attain the Pass eariy in the
forenoon, (one of those beautifill days in early summer of which this country has so many,) enabling us
to fully enjoy the magnificent views-ample compensation for a long stage journey. To those accustomed to the heavy air of the low country, no correct
judgment can be formed as to distance. We were
permitted here to supply ourselves with late papers
and magazines, they being thickly scattered upon
the ground-a verification of the old saying, that
there is no loss without gain. The stage had been
attacked by Indians a short time before, a few miles
from here; but they succeeded in gaining the summit, when their horses were exhausted, and they
stopped, taking the mnails and baggage, with which
they made themselves a fort, and lay down in it.
There being five ot them, well armed with rifles,
breech-loa(ders, they were able to make a good de
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