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.
traveling "Hell," as it was called, obtained more
than their share of the profits on construction.
Murder and lawlessness became so common that the
workmen were obliged, in self-defence, to organize
vigilance committees and exercise their own laws.
They would mark these desperate fellows, and when
any one had done enough to hang him he would
be waited upon by a committee. They would
send an armed band into his gambling or drinkinghouse, march him away, give him a jury trial, allow
him a few hours to prepare for death, and before
morning he was hanged. As many as a dozen have
been thus suspended in a single camp in one night.
The most of those they hanged were murderers.
The halter was the only punishment the villains
dreaded. When an inquiry was made after one
thus disposed of, they would answer: "I understand
he broke his neck in climbing a tree."
Aniotler feature, uInprecedented in making railroads, was, that the printing press traveled with the
working trains, and daily papers were issued. This
was a kind of portable business village, and would
have drug shops, restaurants, whisky saloons, and all
kinds of goods. For this privilege the occupalnts
would pay fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars
to the railroad company for ground sufficient upon
which to place their tent. The road was driveln
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