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.
within the last twenty years in Christian civilization farther than in any previous century.
Nature has done much to make this sunset land of
ours a home for the different families of men, and give
her a place among the other States of the Union of
so much importance. We see a great future for this
part of our land-far-reaching in results to the hbumnan family, for both hemispheres. Here the people
from the East and from the West meet-here they
iunite their interests. It would seem to be the plan
o)f Infinite Wisdom, to bring the more feeble races
of men here through the Ocean Gateway, where they
might learn His purposes, and have the benefit of
a higher civilization. There is no nationality on
earth so certain to impress itself upon weaker races,
as the American. Christianity and civilization, those
twin sisters of a birth divine, which started where
Eden bloomed, have been marching together all
through the ages, and all round the globe into this
t'air land, the utmost part of the West.
Here, on ti is western margin of the globe, our people have found a heritage which rivals the land of
promise, as described by the Pr(ophet: "A land of
brooks, of water, of fountains and depths, that spring
out of the valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees, at.d pomegranates; a
land of oil, olive and honey; a land in which thou
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