The beaver men
Subtitle: spearheads of empire
By: Mari Sandoz ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Andrew R. Graybill.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780803226562
Subjects: Fur trade -- West (U.S.); Fur trade -- Northwest, Canadian; West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848; Northwest, Canadian -- History
Description: "Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Ham's Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834."--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Hastings House, 1964.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Book 1. Soft gold; title: Bearded men and summer fairs; title: Castor, guardian of hospitality; title: Paddle and portage; title: Still ponds and war whoops; title: Book 2. The rise of the company; title: River to the "vermillion sea"; title: The romantic explorations; title: The gentlemen adventurers; title: A daring race of Scots; title: The five villages; title: international prey; title: Book 3. The fiercer rivalries; title: Voyageurs of the Plains; title: Americans to the western sea; title: Winter of the explorers; title: Fur fair and Blackfeet wall; title: Pursuit of the eternal remnant; title: Romantic buckskin to the last boisson; title: "Gone" rendezvous and foppish silk.