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.

ASCENT OF PIKE'S PEAK.
panions, with haggard cheeks and blood-shot eyes.
seemed but shadowy suggestions of their former
selves. Each of the ladies had lost just eigl)ht
pounds of flesh in less than eight days. One, whose
shoes were cut through by sharp rocks early on the
jourr)ey, had been walking for three days with portions of her bare feet striking upon the stones, gravel
and snow. We were soon clothed and in our right
minds, and eating heartily.
No lasting inconvenience was experienced from
the trip, except the most ravenous and uncompromising hunger which continued at intervals for the next
two weeks. If "he is well paid who is well satisfied," the journey was far the most remunerative any
of us had ever taken.
This Peak is surrounded by several ranges of
mountains rising gradually from the plain, with large
and small valleys between, so that a carriage can
only get within four or five miles of the base of the
mountain proper. A party wishing to make the
ascension ought to take pack horses; then they can
get over all the space from Colorado City to the
main ascent with little difficulty, and the party being
vigorous, can then gain the peak'without excessive
fatigue, and the tourist will experience no inconvenience, "no evil will theInce ensue," but a pleasure
in making it. I was informed by a party who had
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