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.
"We do verily believe and trust that the Lord is
with us, unto whom and whose service we hlave
given ourselves in many trials, and that Hle will
graciously prosper our endeavors, according to the
simplicity of our hearts."
Men who can put forth such words with sincerity,
and who have embarked in a just cause, are almost
sure to succeed. They may not live to gather the
fruits of their own planting; others may build, but
they have laid the foundation. Entertaining such
views, the body was raised above weakness; it
nerved the humble to withstand the frowns of power; it triumphed over the prison and the scaffold, over
all kinds of suffering and deprivation; it gave also
manly courage to tender and delicate women.
Whatever may be said for or against the motives
our Pilgrim fathers had in coming to the New
W'orld to found a colony, they did plant deep in the
fruitful soil the living principles of republican gov
ernment for the admiration of mankind. Two hundred and fifty years has now passed away since this
faitllful colony landed upon our shore. We love to
go back to our infancy and follow up the settlement
of the country; to see the wilderness and the frowns
of savage nature give way to homes of civilized life.
The log house of the frontier settler first built on the
shore of the Atlantic moved slowly but steadily, con
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