| Description |
1 online resource (465 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Author; Title Page; Copyright; Introduction; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Book I. SOFT GOLD; 1. Bearded Man and Summer Fairs; 2. Castor, Guardian of Hospitality; 3. Paddle and Portage; 4. Still Ponds and War Whoops; Book II. THE RISE OF THE COMPANY; 1. River to the ""Vermillion Sea""; 2. The Romantic Explorations; 3. The Gentlement Adventurers; 4. A Daring Race of Scots; 5. The Five Villages-International Prey; Book III. THE FIERCER RIVALRIES; 1. Voyageurs of the Plains; 2. Americans to the Western Sea; 3. Winter of the Explorers |
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4. Fur Fair and Blackfeet Wall5. Pursuit of the Eternal Remnant; 6. Romantic Buckskin to the Last Boisson; 7. ""Gone"" Rendezvois and Foppish Silk; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; KEY TO MAP ON PAGES ii-iii; Back Cover |
| Summary |
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. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari Sandoz's trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to an animal species |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fur trade -- West (U.S.)
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Fur trade -- Northwest, Canadian
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Fur trade.
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| SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146152
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Northwest, Canadian -- History
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Canada -- Canadian Northwest.
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West United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0803246013 |
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9780803246010 |
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