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 THIE WEST.
We admire and praise that individual who answers
best the great end for which he was created. We
admire that tree, that vine which bears fruit the
most rich and abundant. That star which is most
useful in the heavens is the one we admire the most.
We have in the character of our subject a representative man-fully developed and meritorious, but long
since enrolled among the noblest of the dead. Rest
in peace, great Columbus, thy fame circles the temple of memory high up. Thy name will ever be
mentioned with honor; it is like that of a household
idol in the nation's citadel of life, and will be handed
down with reverence, will live as long as there is an
American race living in waving fields, with groves
of happiness between. Far be it from my purpose
to adorn our subject with a chaplet plucked from
the domain of others, when we say his far-reaching
intelligence, his noble character, is a full pattern for
any age and country. Ile wears not borrowed honors; he will ever receive the grateful respect of a
grateful people.
Go back to the old empires, examine the honored
names, the benefactors of earlier days; turn ovei
the records of Ancient Greece; review the books of
mighty Rome; summon back the honored dead of
every age; and where, among the race of morta]
men, shall one be found who has been a greater ben
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