HE BEAVER MEN

by Mari Sandoz ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 5, 1964

(YA) Mari Sandoz here continues her epochal history of the Great Plains (seven volumes so far) with a sweeping account of the beaver trade which was the spearhead of American empire. As with the Indian and the buffalo, the great herds of beaver which once covered the Plains have vanished. Miss Sandoz survey of the beaver trade covers two and a half centuries, from the trekds of Chauvin and Champlain to the exploitation of the Hudson's Bay region, the upper Missouri and on to the Rockies and the last days of the trade in Wyoming. As ever, the rugged individualists eventually give way to the great companies. Miss Sandoz traces the rise of the giant monopolies of the trade in both Canada and the Western states, and gives special attention to the villainous hand of John Jacob Astor. The dying out of the herds of ""soft gold"" is movingly described in this always readable epic of over-zealous ambitions and greed.

Pub Date: Oct. 5, 1964

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Hastings House

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION