<DIV>Covering more than two centuries, <I>The Beaver Men</I> 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. <I>The Beaver Men</I> is the third in Mari Sandoz's trilogy of books narrating the history of the American West in relation to an animal species.</DIV>