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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its edge, though to see it ahead looks as if we were
riding on an earth-collared rail, appropriately called
the " Camel's Back." Down this ridge the horses
dash at break neck speed. Should the wheels vary
a foot either side, we would go down several hundred feet among the rocks.
But stage-driving in this country is truly a
science, and over it we pass, and are to descend
nearly two thousand feet in two miles, to the canyon below. The horses dash down upon the quickest gait, and after making thirty-five short turns, a
failure at any one of which would have cost us our
lives, we are just eleven minutes in coming down
to the bottom. Such rapid driving down such a
road causes one to hold his breath and throb with
excitement, thinking that whoever takes it hereafter must be a fool or crazy.
We are now in a deep canyon, on either side of
which the majestic mountains rise three thousand
feet and over. No mountains can exceed their symmetrical beauty. A large trout stream runs through
the canyon, clear, cold and beautiful. We cross this
brook at right angles and enter another canyon,
which is the home of the Geysers. The Geysers
were originally discovered in Iceland, and the word
is Icelandic, meaning driving, urgent; because a
Geyser is ever throwing up water or mud and wa
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