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.

DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINEN,NT.
gathered at his heart. The streams of life within
him gave signs of woe-that all was lost. Loudly
blew contending tempests on his devoted head
great troubles at hand and none to help. All seem(ed
lost and far away from their native land. "Return,"
return," went over the then wilderness of waters.
Columbus' lengthened shadow over the boundless
waters moved beneath the silvery-curtained clouds,
lost and left in loneliness, deep waters and difficulties
thick all around, each moment big with trouble. He
rode on contention and directed the storm when hope
had turned to despair in every heart but his.
But his great undertaking shall be finally accomplished because written on mid-face of heaven,
where all the world might see it. There are occasions in which a great soul lives years of wrapt
enjoyment in a moment. His great soul then caught
the treasure it through life had sought. His darling
object was fixed in the capacious recesses of his
mind. That eye, that life which had long lived in
the unknown West to the Old World, saw a far off
moving light. As the hands on the immutable clock
in the ethereal dome marked the long hours of that
never-to-be-forgotten night, when the Old World
first saw the New, moved slowly on time's face to
hlim.
First of all we behold the great discoverer of Amer
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