The hunt for the lowly beaver almost inadvertently “turned into the quest for a nation,” Newman wrote, and while his account focuses on Canada, Eric Jay Dolin adapts the argument for its neighbor below the 49th parallel. Men defied oceans and hacked their way across North America armies and navies clashed under the polar moon an Indian civilization was debauched - all in quest of the pug-nosed rodent with the lustrous fur.” Newman wrote: “Seldom has an animal exercised such a profound influence on the history of a country. In “Company of Adventurers,” the first of a three-part history of the Hudson’s Bay Co., Peter C. The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
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