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The trading post became the vehicle both for the Navajo obtaining the goods they needed and a market for the products they wished to sell. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A sutler at Fort Defiance, Arizona began trading with the Navajo in 1851, but Fort Defiance closed in 1868 and the era of privately owned trading posts began. [ 7 ]
Established on August 28, 1965, Hubbell Trading Post encompasses about 65 hectares (160 acres) and preserves the oldest continuously operated trading post on the Navajo Nation. [1] [ 4 ] From the late 1860s through the 1960s, the local trading post was the main financial and commercial hub for many Navajo people, functioning as a bank (where ...
A trading post, trading station, or trading house, also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded. Typically the location of the trading post allows people from one geographic area to trade in goods produced in another area.
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Moore arrived at Narbona Pass in 1896 and bought the trading site, which until then had been open seasonally without permanent buildings. Moore cut timber in the mountains and hauled it down to build a log trading post, which he stocked with supplies carted from the rail head in Gallup. He named his establishment the Crystal Trading Post. [2]
The nearest trading post was some 50 mi (80 km) away and Keam's trading post was 13 mi (21 km) east of the Hopi Indian's settlements on First Mesa. With the opportunity for full year round trade nearby, the regional Indians quickly identified the canyon with the traders and the name Keams Canyon took hold.
Hand tinted photo of Garden of the Gods Trading Post, ca 1930, with Navajo and Pueblo Indians seated on porch. Strausenback died in 1957 and the trading post continued to be run by his widow Esther until 1979. [citation needed] At that time the trading post came under the proprietorship of T.A.T. Enterprises, which still owns the trading post.
This is a list of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts. [1] For the fur trade in general see North American fur trade and Canadian canoe routes (early). For some groups of related posts see Fort-Rupert for James Bay. Ottawa River, Winnipeg River, Assiniboine River fur trade, and Saskatchewan River fur trade