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.
Pike's Peak was named in h()onor of General Zebu.
lon M. Pike, a gallant young officer, who discovered
and ascended it in 1806, while at the head of an ex
ploring expedition sent by Jefferson's administ rationi
A few years later, before he had reached the p,rime
of life, he fell in the defence of his country's flag, at
the battle of Toronto.
The summit embraces about fifty acres. It is oblong
and nearly level, composed wholly of angular slabs
and blocks of disintegrating granite. We found
fresh snow several inches deep in the interstices,
but the August sun had melted it all from the surface.
We were fortunate in having a clear day, which
gave us the view in its full sublimity. Eastward for
a hundred miles, our eyes wandered over dim dreary
prairies, spotted by dark shadows of the clouds aind
the deeper green of the prairies, intersected by
faint gray lines of road, and emerald threads of
timber along the streams, and banded on the far
horizon with a girdle of gold. At our feet, below
the now insignificant mountains up which we had
toiled, stood Colorado, a confused city of Liliputs,
and our own carriage with a man standing near it.
Further south swept the green timbers of the Fountaine Qui Bouille, the Arkansas and the Hluerfano,
and then rose the blue Spanish Peaks of New Mexico
a hundred miles distant. Eight or teii miles away
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