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.

THE MIDDLE PARK.
d ty, it would have been passed with much hardship
after the crust melted. some mountain men have
snow shoesabout ten feet loiJg, turned up a little in
front, with a place in the center for the foot; with
these and a stick about the same length, to hold one
end ii the hand and drag the other on the snow for
bracing, they travel over these snowv fields with ease
and rapidity.
The valley is narrow, descends for sixteen miles,
somtie places but a little wider than the river, with
mountain peaks going up sharply on either side,
clothed in snow.
This coulntry confounds the almanacs, makes July
January, and January July-reverses the seasons,
and then reverses them back again. All the different
seasons of the year are represented at one place
here, within the limits of a single view.
While we were in South Park, our bodily man
was cared for, among the various mining townsbut now on leaving Breckenridge, reluctantly however. as spring supplies had not then arrived, we
were obliged to set up house keeping for ourselves
aid family, the highly romantic and heroic mode of
eating and sleeping one's self. But as "man wants
but little here below," a coffee pot, frying pan, jackknite and a pair of blankets is a fair setting out in
this country, for the most respected and wealthy, for
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