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
people, who not only live themselves, but export
largely their agricultural produce, which is sustained
by irrigation alone.
Wherever a watered valley can be found in Utah,
(the name of an Indian tribe, meaning those who
dwell in the mountains,) and there are many creep
ing up among the mountains a long, long way, there
you will find the humble, industrious, uncomplaihing
Mormon settler, earning a living in the way most
congenial to his nature by cultivating the soil. All
of them are plain; most of them are extremely so,
as might be expected in a very humble people.
They bear the impress of poverty, hard work and
poor living from their youth up. Yet, as a people,
they have no doubt bettered their condition physically, if not mentally, by coming here.
Here is a community gathered from almost the
uttermost parts of the earth, mostly foreigners, from
the lowest, most ignorant strata of society in Eu
rope. They are from England, Norway, Sweden,
and many from Denmark, and a few of our owes
people, cemented together, presenting a very good
outward fusion, making them seemingly united, dif
fering from all other people in government, domestic
life and religion. These industrious and economical conglomerated people have taken from the most
fortidding frowns of forbidding nature a country
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