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.

overland stage for the Pacific. I-Havlng made exten
sire travels in various parts of the country during the
season, he took the steamer from San Francisco to
Panama, and from Central America to New York.
A year and a half of home life, in thle picturesque and
historic Valley of the Mohawk, had served only to
increase a desire to revisit these vast and interesti'ng
regions; so full of geographical and historical information; so replete with scenes of wonder and beauty; sublime, yet ugly; magnificent, yet rough; beautiful, yet mean; which can be found in no other country-somewhat of the kind the Grecian poets gave a
local habitation on the northern coast of Africa, as
peculiarly the unknown land of mysteries.
"Here they placed the delightful gardens of Hesperides, whose trees bore apples of pure gold; there
dwelt the terrible Gorgon, whose snaky tresses turned all things into stone; there the invincible Hercules wrestled and overthrew the mighty Antaeus; there
the weary Atlas supported the ponderous arch of
Heaven on.his stalwart shoulders."
This poetical effusion, unbridled as it is, has a counterpart in many places through this other part of our
country. The many peculiarly interesting objects,
its wonderful formations; its mysteries, scattered everywhere on the surface, and also imbedded in the
granite hills, furnish abundant material to interest
the c(urious, and to demand cf the intelligent traveler,
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