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.

SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS.
i,g in the mountains. So firmly was he impressed
with the dream, that next day he went twenty odd
miles to see another old hunter. In describing his
dream, he pictured the place so plainly that the
hunter recognized it as being the place afterwards
known as Donner's Lake. They organized a small
party and started immediately, through the deep
snows, and found the party-exactly according to
the dream-and thirty out of the eighty were rescued, though some of them were badly frozen and
crippled for life.
During this terrible time they became so besotted,
that when found, with parts of their undevoured
friends around them, like wild animals that have
once tasted human flesh, they had to be literally
forced away from this kind of living, and most reluctantly took the food which their deliverers
brought. It is said that one of them was found
cooking human flesh, besmeared with its blood after
he had been supplied. It was supposed he had committed murder in order to have one more feast.
As we looked down from the beautiful cars, with
every want supplied and every wish anticipated, upon
that historic and picturesque spot in the summer,
where these poor emigrants suffered all that humanity could suffer, and died in such a heart-sickening
way, we could not release ourself from the sad im
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