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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to move back or ahead, or gather at the railroad
stations. They are the victims of a higher development; the iron-tongued locomotive calls them back to
receive that prominent enterprise which she carries
-,lotig with her through the country for the settler.
I noticed that one ('lass of the original inhabitants
of this region remained in their old homes with out
fear or favor, careless and unconcerned as if there
had been no change ill their land. The prairie dog
villages or settlements with their traditional colnpanions remained as of old. He stood erect on the
threshold of his castle, his own picket and scoutt,
enjoyilng the world as of old, like a gentleman a.d
philosopher. An Lonest real estate dealer, he condducts his business upon the principle that iihabitants are requisite to make a city, anid never defr'tu(1s
unsuspecting victims; always jovial, frolics merrily
wvith his fellows in the warm sun, makii)gf seeinilgly, his litfe a party of pleasure. There is a beliet
that the prairie dog willingly gives the owl and
rattlesnake a home in his subterranean house.
I was informed by an oldt hunter and trapper
tlhroug,h the couintry, who had good opportunities of
observwttion, that the prairie dog consents to share
lIis abode with these ill-assorted denizens through
his iinability to avoid it. Their villages are on
the naked plains, where there is neither rock for
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