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.

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town six thousand feet; the air is light; physical
exercise causes shortness of breath. Those wearing
artificial teeth are troubled tod keep them in the
mouth, so light is the atmospheric pressure.
Austin has a population of a little more than four
thousand people, and no hotels, in the American
sense, but lodging houses, with restaurants often
quite distant-often in another part of the town.
All business transactions here, since the suspension
f specie, has been done on a gold basis; if greenbacks are used it is at coin rates.
Hlere we first meet Pacific Coast life and enterprise. A number of new kitnds of people are herethe Mexican. with his pack mules; the Celestials, doing nearly all the domestic labor of the town; also
several other nationalities, largely represented, making the population much more mixed —some dressed in their national costume.
Cbntinuing westward by coach from Austin, we
cross Reese River valley, and enter upon one of Nevada's poorest ashen deserts. The disagreeableness
of the alkine dust, as of old, envelops horses, vehicle
and occupants, a distance of three hundred and twenty miles; but these are now among the rubbish of
the past, only to be occasionally remembered.
Most mining towns are thrown loosely along some
tortuous ravine; but Virginia City, for a time tlhe
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