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On the Trading Post Trail

by | Mar 20, 2010 | Travel & Preservation

From Ganado, Arizona, to Tohatchi, New Mexico.
They were cultural centers, these trading posts on the Navajo reservation. “A community place for people to meet, get their mail, maybe make a phone call if there was a phone in the area,” trader and manager Bill Malone says at Shush Yaz Trading Co. in Gallup, New Mexico. Malone would know. Since 1961, he has traded at Lupton, Piñon, Keams Canyon and Hubbell befo


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