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.
Union I" Consequently we can with propriety style
this book Beyond the Old West.
I hope that no American citizen will let an opportu ni ty pass to make the trans-continental journey; with.
out it, no one can have an extended knowledge of
his own country, of the great extent of our domain,
our wonderful resources and our future destiny.
Chicago is the gathering-in point of Railroads.
She is the center of railway commerce, East and
West, and may now be called an Eastern city, which
a few years ago was very far to the West; for the
star of empire has left her far -behind to the full enjoyment of home enterprise and home comforts.
Whether the traveler to the West from New York
goes by New York Central, Erie, or by Michigan
Southern or Michigan Central, leaving at the same
time, he is carried into Chicago almost at the same
moment, a thousand miles journey. From Chicago to
Omaha, where begins the Pacific Railroad, is five hundred miles, through Northern Illinois and Central
Iowa by the Chicago and Northwest'ern Railway,
crossling the Mississippi River about half way. Two
more roads further South will soon be finishedRock Island and Burlington —which will give Chicago
and Omaha three separate lines nearly direct. Omaha has also communication with the great commer
cial city of St. Louis by the road down the Mlissouri
River to St. Joseph and Kansa, City.
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