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.

BEVoNI) TIlE WEST
Pike's Peak affords a sharp contrast. We started
in a dense forest of pines and firs, but vegetation
ceases so abruptly that in ten minutes we stood upon
the open, barren mountain side, with no green thing
about us except a few flowers and beds of velvety
grass among the rocks. The remainder of the as
cent is very abrupt. We followed the line, which
in the distance had appeared like a path, but now
proved a gaping gorge a mile in width. The summit
seemed very near, but we toiled on and on for hours
up the sharp bight. The thin air made it impossible to go more thali a hundred feet without pausing
for breath; but among the grand scenery we forgot
our fatigue and remembered our weariness no more.
The ladies, imbued with new life, could only finid
expression in singing the old hymn:
"This is the way I long have sought,
And mourned because I found it not.
Tufts of wood indicated the lhanits of mouintain
sheep. an animal of unequaled agility. Hle leaps
incredible distances down the rocks, and is even
reputed to strike upon his broad horns, which re
ceive the most violent concussions without injury.
The sky assumed a deeper, richer blue, and the fields
of ice and snow began to enlarge., Even here hun(ireds of tulip-shaped blossoms of faint yellow,
ili-lgled with purple, opened their meek eyes beside
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