Show lowly beaver has played a star part in history the animal that played a star role in the early history of this continent is the beaver wars have been waged cities founded vast projects of exploration and development carried out all because of the beaver writes ding darling in the indianapolis news A french king set the style of the tan tall beaver hat which continued for a century and a halt half and sent tens of thousands of men red and white to violent death in the wilderness in search of the highly prized beaver pelts paved the way for the heroism of the jesuits and the villainy of the renegade fur traders gave impetus to the establishment of quebec montreal detroit st louis and scores of lesser towns it was for beaver that the voyagers threaded the forest waterways and for beaver that the mountain men invaded the domain of hostile tribes not only has the beaver left its impress on history and its record written in national boundary lines but it has also decisively affected the very face of the earth in many places beaver dams beaver ponds A are natures means of flood con tj I 1 OW and erosion check in the course or centuries hundreds of square miles of fertile fields have resulted from beaver work |