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.
sating heart I will give the exuberant bosom of a
common mother to all the families of men who will
come unto me. With arms extended, and with welcome hands, I will take my legitimate children and
nourish them upon my capacious bosom, for they
will appreciate my blessings, and draw from me that
best of life that maketh children men, intelligent
anrid free, grow great, prosperous and happy in my
approving smiles. I will add to thie jeweled diadem
of the Old World a central star, around which in
time all the old crowned continents will revolve and
bathe in my radiating light, and happy life will look
where I live for higher types of life, from the Arctic
circle to the tropics, from the rising of the sun to
the going down of the same. The old rhl-eumatic,
life-destroying systems of extending empire and
propagating religion by fire and sword through
rivers of human blood, trampling tihe f,-irest field in
every century into bloody mire by mighty atrmies,
here found an antidote, a heart felt counteracting
influence, in our more congenial soil for working
life.
The gray-.haired customs of the people in the old
countries, shut up like oysters in themselves, crawled
out of their century-worn shell into a better life. This
the strongest wedge that ever split the knotty block
of blind intolerance. This the heavy weight which
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