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.

THE ROAD FROM CHEYENNE.
ers, with rough and smooth walls, sometimes one and
two thousand feet high, through Echo Canyon.
This deep, narrow opening through the mount;iil
is about twenty miles in length, and is in some places arched by overhanging small trees arnd rocks.
This canyon has many very striking features like the
Cascades of Oregon, which would amply repay the
traveler to incommode himself to visit.
The many Mormon fortifications, now in a bad
state of preservation, on the bluffs and in caverns on
the sides of the mountains, remind the traveler of
the time when Johnson's army was marching on the
Sainted City. The Mormons fortified this deep callyon to give battle to their invaders-a Gibraltar of
defense in and of itself.
We enter a productive valley, dotted with cultivated fields and greensward, having a clear, beautiful river, where the comforts of civilizatioli were
present. The ct)ntrast was unusually agreeable, liaving been so long away from such pleasalnt inJdications
of our home life.
The country through which we have passed, although grand and majestic to look upon, is almost
A barren land, save wild sage and cactus, the naked
mountains, dreary ashen hills of earth, immenise
wastes, white with alkali, the grounr.d parched and
ullied, a country more varied but as barren as the
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