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.
long ridges, admire myriads of the most beautiful
trees the eye ever saw, pass over leads of snow on
the highest mountains for miles, (in mid-summer,)
then perhaps through parks of Nature's planting.
We move on, seldom faster than a walk, till we have
had twenty-five long, weary miles' ride, when we
look down from the summit of the mountain-three
thousand feet into a valley-which is four thousand
and seventy-five feet above the sea.
About two hundred miles easterly from San Fran.
cisco, and not far from the summit of the snowcapped Nevada Mountains, are some of the most remarkable depressions, gorges and canyons ever found.
While we are looking down the most wonderful
one of them all, we pause, admire, and hold our
breath. The place is so unlike any other in matchless grandeur, that we feel the pulse-beatings of Omnipotent power. We are looking east, and at our
right hand is an opening through immense perpendicular walls, only wide enough for a foaming river
to dash out. The canyon looks as if the great
mountains had just opened to let the river through,
and you almost expect to see them come together
again. Very high up, between the rock walls over
the valley, is suspended in mid-air the thinnest possible veil of mist caused by the falling waters. This
is "Yosemite Valley."
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