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Hubbell Trading Post - Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest (Paperback)
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Hubbell Trading Post - Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest (Paperback)
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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 material and
secondary literature, historian Erica Cottam begins with an account
of John Lorenzo Hubbell, who was part Hispanic, part Anglo, and
wholly brilliant and charismatic. She examines his trading
practices and the strategies he used to meet the challenges of
Navajo exchange customs and a seasonal trading cycle. Tracing the
trading post's affairs through the upheavals of the twentieth
century, Cottam explores the growth of tourism, the development of
Navajo weaving, the automobile's advent, and the Hubbells'
relationship with the Fred Harvey Company. She also describes the
Hubbell family's role in providing Navajo and Hopi demonstrators
for world's fairs and other events and in supplying museums with
Native artifacts. Acknowledging the criticism aimed at the Hubbell
family for taking advantage of Navajo clients, Cottam shows the
family's strengths: their integrity as business operators and the
warm friendships they developed with customers and with the
artists, writers, archaeologists, politicians, and tourists
attracted to Navajo country by its unparalleled landscapes and
fascinating peoples. Cottam traces the preservation efforts of
Hubbell's daughter-in-law after the Great Depression and World War
II fundamentally altered the trading post business, and concludes
with the post's transition to its present status as a National Park
Service historic site.
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