Desert Trader: Goldie Tracy Richmond, Trader, Trapper, and Quiltmaker
Tohono O'odham Nation Cultural Center and Museum Fresnal Canyon Road Topawa, Sells, AZ, United StatesGoldie Tracy Richmond came to southwestern Arizona in 1927 where she lived in a canvas lean-to. To survive, Goldie mined, ran traplines, and operated Tracy’s Trading Post, living among the Tohono O’odham people for four decades. She was a large woman, and the stories told by the O’odham people of Goldie’s life are legendary. Goldie […]