The Beaver Men Spearheads of Empire Author:Mari Sandoz Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men ranges from 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.
A very detailed story of the first white men that explored to the west and helped eliminate all the beaver for fashion. Mostly came from early journals written by them going back to the 1600's, way before Lewis & Clark.