Arizona's Historic Trading Posts (Images of America) - Softcover

Davis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467132497 ISBN 13: 9781467132497

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2014

Synopsis

On the sparsely settled Arizona reservation lands, trading posts were important centers for commerce as well as social gathering destinations. With a subsistence economy, the posts offered opportunities to trade sheep, wool, and crafts for necessities such as flour, coffee, sugar (known as sweet-salt), and tools. Most often, traders were Anglos, living as partners among their Indian neighbors. They often were the only contact with the outside culture, and their stores provided an outlet for local arts such as rugs, pottery, baskets, and jewelry. Traders helped with correspondence, transportation, and sickness, and they even buried the dead. Trading posts were the sites of marriages and murders; they were destinations for artists, scientists, and adventurous tourists. With the coming of roads and automobiles, trading posts have all but disappeared, but the stories and photographs shared in this volume offer a glimpse into a vanishing time in the Southwest.

About this title

About the Author

Carolyn O'Bagy Davis was raised in the West and has always been fascinated with Native American cultures as well as the old trading posts. Davis is a historian and author of 13 books on Western history. Much of the information in this volume came from traders who were interviewed and shared personal photographs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1467132497
• ISBN 13: 9781467132497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128