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.

BEYtON-D TIlE WEST.
sorry essays at reading and whist playing. Early in
the evening our robust Colorado friends, who had
gone a mile beyond us, passed by onl their return,
having given up the trip as too severe. We gathered an ample supply of wood. The dead pines,
of(ten six inches in diameter and thirty feet high,
Nveie easily overturned; their brittle roots snapping
like pipe steins. As the fire was our only solace,
we piled on logs until the -ed flames leaped high
tid chaseud Iie 1ttieK darkness away. Four of us
huddled under the rock, while the fifth, as the least
of two evils, sat grimly in the open air, wrapped in
his blanket and broodinig upon destiny. The rain
became very violent, and the natural roof sloping
unfortunately in the wrong direction, showered the
water upon us in melanch(ily profusion. After many
dismal jests about our dreary situation, one by one
mn co-tenants dropped asleep. My own latest recollection of that procrutstean bed was at eleven o'clock,
wlenr I was wooit;g the drowvsy god with my legs in
.i mund puddle, a sharp rock piercing amy ribs, and a
stream of waiter pourilig down my back. At midnight my friends arose, for the air had grown very
clill, and sought our great log fire. After elIjo(yilJiA
for a few minutes the comforts of its red flaii,eS.
L comfort mitigated by the peltitg rain, wrapp)ing
myself agailn in a wet blanket, and creepilg -,;s fir
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