Leroy Atkinson started selling Navajo and Hopi arts in Gallup in 1935. By 1942 the competition in Gallup had stiffened. He moved west of town to Box Canyon, where he built two Navajo hogans and a cabin for his store.
Frank Redford constructed his first teepee with baths in Kentucky and patented the design. He sold the design to Clifton Lewis, who constructed a teepee village in Holbrook.
Ella Blackwell claimed that the Mormons who established Joseph City also build her trading post. But then Ella also claimed that God talked to her through the TV.
James Taylor traveled the length of Route 66, erecting signs for the Jack Rabbit Trading Post, built in 1949. When tourists arrived in Joseph City with a hankering for the kind of stuff parents hate, but kits love, he erected a sign that announced, "Here It Is." |
