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.

CHAPTER IV.
WHERE IS THE WEST?
The first settlers upon Massachusetts Bay, after
exploring the country for twenty miles "out West,"
reported the fact with great surprise, and boasted
that the soil was tillable for that entire distance.
This book is styled Beyond the West, for the reason that what is generally understood by the great
productive West, seems to stop this side of the geographical centre of the continent North and South.
Nature has drawn the line of demarkation between
them. The central rivers of the continent-the Mississippi aLrd Missouri-form, to some extent, the
boundary. The continental centre is about half way
between the Missouri river and the base of the
Rocky Mountains. West of this the whole country
to the Pacific is so differently made up as to be
quite another country, as to the natural productions
and climate. Consequently, what we mean when
we speak of the Old West does not belong to this
other New West. This has distinctive characteris
tic features peculiar to the country, quite different
from the Atlantic side.
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