Navajoland Trading Post Encyclopedia
Description:... "Navajoland trading posts offered general merchandise in exchange for wool, weaving, livestock, and other local products. The posts were the main economic and cultural link with the rest of the US from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. Few have survived. This book covers all the trading posts that the authors could identify--about 400 of them--with information on owners, architecture, family relations, and ranching and other related enterprises. Historic photographs illustrated many posts. The introduction gives an overview of the trading post system, and appendices provide historical road maps, family trees, and biographical sketches of Navajos who owned or managed trading posts. The stories of Navajos working inside the trading post system, especially as traders, are brought to the forefront for the first time"--Verso of back cover.
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