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.

ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT.
quering hostile nature towards the setting sun,
compelling the cabin of the trapper and the wigwarn of the savage to change their homes farther
and still farther to the West, and then beyond the
Great West, where we now find men planting towns
and cities, making governments and doing all other
acts and things requisite to the establishment of
healthy and prosperous homes.
The natives are not wholly alone in their would
be savage glory, for civilization has established itself across and over the continent, and they must
conform or be ultimately annihilated. Every obstacle
must be removed that is in the way of the extension
of this growing family of great and prosperous States
in the West.
"Behind the squaw's light bark canoe
The Steamer and Railroad rocks and raves,
And city lots are staked for sale
Above old Indian graves.
I hear the tread of pioneers,
Of nations yet to be;
The first low wash of waves where soon
Shall roll a human sea.
The rudiments of Empire here
Are plastic yet and warm,
The chaos of a mighty world
Is rounding into form.
Who can or will presume to assign limits to our
growth or dare to compute the time table of our
railway progress, or lift the curtain that hides the
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