Hubbell Trading Post: Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest

by Erica Cottam

Book Overview

For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoples--and in this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighbors and clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about the history of Navajo trading.

Drawing on extensive archival...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806167521
• ISBN13: 9780806167527
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"