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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felled in 1854, which was perfectly sound the NNhole
distance through, thirty-three feet. Five men worked
twenty-five days with pump augers, before they
could get it'down. The stump is five feet from the
ground, has a house built over it, and easily accommodates four quadrille sets of dancers, musicians,
and a few spectators at a time. Theatrical performances have been held upon it, and a few years ago
a newspaper, The Big Tree Buletin, was printed
there.
Near the stump lies a section of the trunk twentyfive feet in diameter and twenty feet long, which you
can mount only by wood steps, twenty-eight in
number, and long ones too. About thirty feet of
the trunk has been taken out to supply visitors with
canes and other specimens of the wood. Beyond
lies the immense trunk as it fell, measuring 302
feet from the base of the stump to its extremity.
Upon this was situated a bar-room and ten-pin alley,
stretching along its upper surface for a distance
of eighty-one feet, affording ample space for two
alley beds side by side. If you wish to get an idea
of the diameter of this tree, measure off thirty-three
feet, and see where there is a room as large as the
diameter of that tree.
About eighty feet fi om this stump stands the "Two
Sentinels," each over 300 feet high, and the larger
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