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.
people the tables of his law. Black clo)uds rolled
over each other a mile or more below us like great
monsters in the ethereal ocean. We remained till
the freezing air and the rapidly falling snow (as it
was in July) chilled us, when we began to return.
Slowly feeling our way down th ough the clouds, we
retraced the tedious hard-going way to the valley, and
gained the town in early evening, having traveled
about sixteen mil(es.
In honor of the President, under whose administration the territory had been organized, the peak
was a few years ago named "Mount Lincoln." Let
other States erect their monuments to perpetuate
the name and great deeds of the noble dead. Colo
rado has this monumental mountain, more enduring
than brass and loftier than the pyramids. Storms
may sweep over it, quartz mills may stamp their
iron feet beneath its shadow, tunnels may pierce its
sides, and the mineral wealth of centuries be poured
out into the treasury of the world, but its foundations will remain unmoved. Its base is clothed in
nature's beautiful wreath of evergreen, while its
top reaches so near the heavens as to attain the
spotless purity of eternal white.
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