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Hubbell Trading Post : trade, tourism, and the Navajo southwest

Title: Hubbell Trading Post : trade, tourism, and the Navajo southwest / Erica Cottam.
Author: Cottam, Erica, 1985-
Publication: Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]

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Description

xii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoplesand 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"--Publisher's website.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index.

Contents

Drifting into Navajo Country : Juan Lorenzo Hubbell and the Navajos -- Traders to the Navajos : Early Trading Posts in the Pueblo Colorado Valley -- Laying the Foundations : The Daily Business of the Hubbell Trading Post, 1878-1900 -- The Rise of an Empire : Expansion and Evolution, 1900-1914 -- Troubled Times : Changing Fortunes, 1915-1929 -- "No Misrepresentations, No Shams, and No Counterfeits" : Tourism and the Curio Trade -- "Seekers of Beauty" and ''Adventurers into the Buried Long Ago" : Visitors to the Post -- "The Worst They Ever Knew" : The Great Depression and World War II, 1930-1945 -- A New Era : Becoming a National Historic Site, 1945-1967.

Call Number

JFE 17-370

ISBN

9780806148373 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0806148373 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2015001127

OCLC

905699637

Author

Cottam, Erica, 1985- author.

Title

Hubbell Trading Post : trade, tourism, and the Navajo southwest / Erica Cottam.

Publisher

Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-370

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