The fur trappers of the Old West were fearless, daring men. They knew the West when it was wilderness—a land of Indians and sudden death. Following the countless beaver streams these bold, buckskin-clad men explored the wilderness until it held no secrets from them.

This is more than a story of the fur trade and the adventures shared by the trappers. It is also a story of the trails they blazed for the settlers of a young, growing America.

A. M. Anderson, from the book