The beaver men
Subtitle: spearheads of empire
By: by Mari Sandoz ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Andrew R. Graybill.
Edition: 2nd ed., Bison Books 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
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.