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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YOSEMITE VALLEY.
ed to the State of California, on condition that it be
kept as such. As it now is, Nature is everywhere,
and Art nowhere. Here I saw the Pono Indians, the
simple children as of told, with their bows, and arrows with flint heads; their food mostly acorns pounded in a rock hollowed out perhaps centul ies ago for
the same purpose; their furniture willow baskets;
cooking by heating stones, and throwing them when
heated into the water; their faces tattooed and painted, and their enjoyments nothing above those of the
animal. I hope the time will never come when Art
will be sent here to improve Nature.
This marvelous place invites every one who possibly can to admire its surrounding cascades and mountain peaks; its beautiful sheets of water, falling thousands of feet unbroken; its projecting rocks, columns
of yellow granite into the valley rising perpendicularly thousands of feet. Imagination fondly stops to
trace the unwritten, undescribed, wild grandeur of
that remarkably interesting valley.
Future generations shall tune their song to the
music of thy waterfalls, and catch anew the inspiration of early time in the refreshing shades of thy romantic groves amid the wonderful Nature.
Every one while visiting California, who possi,ly
can, should see this place. No one will regret the
expense and fatigue in order to do it. Having once
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