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.

PREFACE.
Twenty odd years ago, little was known of that
somewhat mysterious part of our continent, lying far
beyond our ideas of the Old West, except as the far-off
land of the Indian, the hunter and trapper, the furs
and the home of the buffalo. One great blank bookmostly without a preface-with a few scratches, here
and there only, on the title page: But how diligently
and understandingly the types were made, set up and
electrotyped, within a few years past. We see the
now unabridged edition, bound in a style more useful
than ornamental, (not yet gilt edged,) but nicely
sprinkled and held together with the great civilizeriron rails. As all the families of men have an interest
in the occupation and development of this, now our
New West, everybody wants a volume of this-Nature's remarkable edition.
To supply a demand which now exists for cheap,
comprehensive and reliable information, with regard
to that other half of our great continent, lying beyond the Old West, this work has been prepared and
is. now placed before the reading community. In the
spring of I865, the author found himself on the west
bank of the Missouri River, at Atchinson, seated in an
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