The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire

Covering more than two centuries, 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. is the third in Mari Sandoz’s trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to an animal species. Mari Sandoz (1896–1966) is the noted author of , , and (all available in Bison Books editions). Andrew R. Graybill is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the author of (Nebraska 2007).