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 TiHt WEST. mountain. The valley is bounded on with lofty mountain slopes, green at the gray, their highest summits white with et combining in one matchless view summ ter, the sunny skies of Italy, and the fr of Switzerland. We look down upon a p ple, and a city equally peculiar, differe ways than one from any other in our wid land. A stranger standing here would, down upon the City of Great Salt Lake, what peculiar people live here. The uu lic erections and cloistered homes of chur ries, would readily excite his curiosity from here offers both a beautiful and view, built by a people in whose history romance of remarkable falnaticism, and t of sufferitJg; while you are indignant ov sumption of religion, you are in admirat tonishment over their industry. On the gentle slope of the mountain, u area of table land before us, is the mount a now large -Ind beautiful city. The four miles in length-run east and west south..They are each eight rods wide, fectly straight each way. On either si street runs a stream of the purest mou and rows and double rows of a variety of I I I I i I i 1i i I II i i,I i i i i i 11 1 i i I .i i i i i ii I I I i i i i iO2 iI ii i I II ii i i I I I I i i i i I i. , north and and are per- I de of every Ii ntain water, i, Ii ,,Iiade trees' II II i

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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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Pine, George W.
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Buffalo, N.Y.,: Baker, Jones & co.,
1873.
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West (U.S.) -- Description and travel

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"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." In the digital collection Making of America Books. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/aba1066.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2025.
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