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 T'HE WEST
twenty-three feet in diameter. The carriage road
approaching the hotel passes directly between them.
Starting from the hotel for the walk that visitors
usually take, we soon came to the first cluster of tile
sequoias, and were named respectively in 1865,
U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman and J. B. McPhersoti
-after three leading Generals of the Union Army.
A short distance from these is the "Pride of the
Forest." It is eighteen feet in diameter and three
hundred feet high-one of the healthiest and noblest trees in the forest.
Near by stands "Phil Sheridan," a stout, graceful
tree, three hundred feet high, and near this lies the
"Miner's Cabin," which was blown down a few years
ago by a terrific gale in 1860. It is three hundred
and nineteen feet long and twenty-one and a half
feet in diameter.
About two hundred feet east of the "Miner's
Cabin" brings us to the "Three Graces," a group of
three trees close together, regarded by many as the
most beautifill cluster in the grove.
A little distance from these stands "Andrew Johnson," so named in the summer of 1865. Making
this tree a central point of observations we have
several magnificent trees within a short distance;
one bearing the name of that Philanthropic English
'1 1 Flrenct "1,gvtnT 1 " "1 aoh nm I,....-y
I
I
I
i
i
i
i
4OU
i
I
I
i
i
i
i
i