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.
crowded great events of the coming century. The
noble work now established across the continent
will go on. We indulge in the bright vision of
healthful progress all over our land, from the first
headland our progenitors saw on the Atlantic coast
to the last promontory on the Pacific, which receives
the parting kiss of the setting sun.
Kind reader, the only apology I have to give you
for the unusual length of these articles, is their importance to us, also to the whole family of man. We
too often forget (not that we are ungrateful) the beginnings of what we now are. It becomes the children of noble progenitors to turn back occasionally
the well-filled pages of time, pass to where they had
a parentage, where the underlying principles were
established from which a nation has grown by steady
steps, great and prosperous at home, and sent back
to the old world the healthful influence of a better
civilization, in which every soul has an interest, and
can breathe freer wherever the atmosphere of heaven has worked a pair of human lungs.
"'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand
between a great and happy land, from ocean to
ocean."
Now that freedom is established all over the land,
we have no more cause of war, and peace has come
to stay. We shall have prosperous continentalen
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