Desert Trader: Goldie Tracy Richmond, Trader, Trapper, and Quiltmaker
Smoki Museum Pueblo 147 N. Arizona Avenue, Prescott, 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 […]