Desert Trader: Goldie Tracy Richmond, Trader, Trapper, and Quiltmaker

Smoki Museum Pueblo 147 N. Arizona Avenue, Prescott, AZ, United States

Goldie 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 […]

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Geronimo and the Apache Surrender: The C.S. Fly Photographs with Jay Van Orden

Smoki Museum Pueblo 147 N. Arizona Avenue, Prescott, AZ, United States

In March of 1886, Geronimo and Tribal Members met with General George Crook in Sonora, Mexico, to discuss the terms of surrender.  C. S. Fly, of Tombstone fame, was on hand to document this historic event with photographs.  These are the only known photographs ever taken of American Indians “At War” and as “Enemy-in-the-Field.”  Audiences […]

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