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.
flower I noticed in the Rocky Mountains, was colum
bine, generous but delicate, of pure white, exquisite
in form and coloring.
The traveler will find amid the almost utter deso
lation of desert and mountain over this country,
nature's little gardens of floral beauty, the ground
white, red and purple, pocket editions of poetry in
velvet and gold, modestly turning up their beautiful
little faces to the sun, which must fall silently and
unobserved, in coming time as in the past. If my
space permitted, I should be glad to give a full de
scription of these many little beauties, for the bene
fit of my flower-learned readers.
High up on the mountains, where nothing can
grow but the mosses, these are covered with a variety and richness of flowers, with white, blue and
pink blossoms. - No large section of country can be
found, even in these vast regions, so barren as not
to have a flower. In the poorest portions would be
sometimes found a wealth of flowers-the otherwise
naked sand-gravel nearly carpeted in places with
these little flowers, presenting their smiling faces to
the scorching sun.
This wealth of flowers has strength, but not coarse
ne-s. The colors are more deep and delicate than
those in our flower gardens; and, although frosts
-nay freeze them every night on the mountains, yet
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