Mari Sandoz

The Beaver Men

Spearheads of Empire, Second Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mari Sandoz (1896¿1966) is the noted author of The Buffalo Hunters, The Cattlemen, and The Battle of the Little Bighorn (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 Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875¿1910 (Nebraska 2007).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 136mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9780803226562
• ISBN-10: 080322656X
• Artikelnr.: 26406625

Autorenporträt

Mari Sandoz (1896-1966) is the noted author of The Buffalo Hunters, The Cattlemen, and The Battle of the Little Bighorn (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 Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 (Nebraska 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Foreword
BOOK I. SOFT GOLD
1. Bearded Men 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 Gentlemen 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
4. Fur Fair and Blackfeet Wall
5. Pursuit of the Eternal Remnant
6. Romantic Buckskin to the Last Boisson
7. "Gone" Rendezvous and Foppish Silk
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Key to Map on Pages ii-iii