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.

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their condition. To all such I would say, do nob
content yourself in the less favored regions in the
center of the continent, but press forward (if you are
energetic) to that country-the Pacific coast-where
the climate is the very air of labor; where the amazing natural resources, the wonderful richness and
beauty of its soil and, climate, makes the greatest
treasure (to those who know how and are willing to
find it) we have in our own territory.
I have mentioned before the South of California
and the sunny and fertile region of Los Angelos and
Santa Barbra. A combitiation. of circumstances point
to this region as undoubtedly the ipost desirable
part of the Pacific coast for the emigrant. I fully
believe that a colonial emigration of Yankees to
that portion of:the State could and would make this
region one of the gardens of.the world. They would
soon have their "cattle on a thousand hills," as once
of Palestine, and the shepherds leading their flocks
on the hills of Los Angelos, as once of Judea.
Here they would have the best climate, amid oranges, lemons;- almonds, figs, olives, the rarest vines,
and the largest enervating influence of climate that
the Anglo Saxon has ever enjoyed The Jewish
law describes no more favored land than this, into
which the children of Israel were promised and led.
While traveling through those vast regions east (of
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