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 HDE WEST
As the traveler now on the Sierra Nevada looks
fromn the swiftly moving, pleasure.giving cars, he
will see a beautiful little lake on the north side of
the track, about sixteen hundred feet below him,
serene, blue and beautiful, five miles long by one
wide. It is " Donner Lake." Here, nearly twentyone years ago, an emigrant train of fifty men and
thirty women and children, encamped on the shore
of this lake late in the fall, under the leadership
of a man by the name of Donner. A very heavy
fall of snow, said to have been twenty feet in depth,
shut them in the canyon and prevented their advance or retreat. As their cattle died they ate them
to the very last piece of their hide. Then starvation came upon them with maddening power; they
could scarcely wait for one of their unfortunate
number to die before the body was consumed.
From cabin to cabin exchanges of parts of the
human body were made, and a return to be given
when the next one died. I was informed that one
of the women is now living who ate her own husband.
For the benefit of the believer and the unbeliever
in dreams, we give the following:
During this time, as we are told, there lived near
San Francisco an old hunter. He dreamed that
there was such an emigrant party starving and dNy
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