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.

MOUNT LINCOLN.
of desolation. Its sides are precipitous and rent
with deep, dark chasms hundreds of feet deep, into
which the light of day never penetrates. Few ever
beheld a more magnificent prospect, seldom equaled,
and excelled by none-a wilderness of mountain
ranges.
Colorado is before you; the magnificent parks as
seen from here, with their undulating hills, transparent brooks and lakes, enclosing slopes of forests,
green pastures, together with "Lo I the poor Indian,"
who, I presume, here sees truly the Great Spirit in
the clouds and hears him in the winds, and the wild
animals that live in them-presenting a view of unsurpassed extent and varied beauty, worth a journey
across the plains. You look over Long's Peak north
to Dacotahb; you survey the hills of Utah to the west,
stretching far away toward the golden shores of the
Pacific; you look over Spanish Peaks south into
New Mexico, and turning to the east your vision
wanders over Pike's Peak, to where the extend(ed
plains appear to be spread out like a great ocean,
and seem to rise ip like the bosom of the deep, ever
conscious of its own immensity. Here the Atlantic
and Pacifit Oceans met, and here they parted-the
ridge poleof the continent north and south, once the
dividing line between Kansas and Utah. Here are
centered the white fiolds of fo)ur separating moun
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