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 ROAP FROM CHEYENNE.
The school register bore the names of fifty odd
pupils, all his own sons and daughters; but there
were not ever thirty present, all looking as healthy,.
bright and intelligent as any other school I ever
visited. Children seem indigenous here; they are
in the houses and on the streets, and you wonder,
till you recollect that they are the only growth of
the soil-without irrigation.
Along the business streets these acre and a quarter
squares are still divided, and the streets present
rows of compact buildings like any other city.
We have given but a fewof the most prominent
features of this center of Mormonism a city and a
people unlike any other in some regards in the
world. The city has a population of about twenty
thousand, Mormons and'"Gentiles," as they call
everybody who are not of their faith.
As we stand overlooking the city and the extended
sweep of country, under the yellow skies, in the
soft, hazy atmosphere covering everything in "robes
of azure hue," we can't but feel that we are in a
goodly heritage, a visioned land, as the Saints claim
it to be. It truly is; after coming from dreary,
barren mountains and naked deserts, from unusual
natural poverty so long, we stand here on the eastern range, high above the valley, and view tte most
beautiful spot on which the sun ever shone. Thus
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