Cow Springs Trading Post, Arizona

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This trading post was located off of Highway 160, formerly Navajo Route 1. It was established in 1882 by George McAdams and was acquired by the Babbitt Brothers Trading Company, located in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1895. As trading posts and their mode of business became less relevant the Babbitt’s closed many locations, by the 1970's the Cow Springs trading post was abandoned. The turn off exit for the trading post is noted in Tony Hillerman's fiction.

Photo Credit

 
"Cow Springs Trading Post, Arizona, circa 1949," photograph, Palace of the Governors Photo Archive, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe (046029). Use with permission only.

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Published Works
Listening Woman (1978)
Term Type
Geographic Reference
Manuscript Occurrences

 
A05 Listening Woman (02-13) p. 52

References

 
Cline Library
     1999   Traders Voices from the Trading Post. Flagstaff: Arizona Board of Regents, Northern
         
         
Arizona University.

Dean Smith
     1989   Brothers Five: The Babbitts of Arizona. Tempe: Arizona Historical Foundation.

Linford, Laurance D.
     2001   Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn
          and Jim Chee Mysteries. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.