Both Sides of the Bullpen: Navajo Trade and Posts

by Robert S. McPherson

Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the "bullpens" of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural knowledge also changed hands. In Both Sides of the Bullpen, Robert S. McPherson reveals the ways that Navajo tradition fundamentally reshaped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806157453
• ISBN13: 9780806157450
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"