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Size:
64" x 80"
Cost: $194 + $10 s/h
With
leather commemorative patch.
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Please
contact us to place your order. |
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80/20 wool/cotton.
The warp
is all cotton for strength and the
weft is all wool. The weft covers the
warp so all you feel is wool.
Napped
has the fiber of the wool pulled to
give it a fuzzy look like a regular
wool blanket whereas Unnapped
is a more pressed and smoother finish. |
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In the
late 1800's, a trading post was built on a sandy
hill overlooking a small lake named "Tonalea"
("Red Water" or "Red Lake" in
Navajo). The trading post served primarily
Navajo customers living in the area northeast of
present-day Tuba City. |
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In 1891, the Red
Lake Trading Post was being operated by a
German-Jewish merchant named Sam Dittenhoffer.
He had vied for the attention of an attractive
young Flagstaff woman, and was gunned down by his
jealous rival in April of 1891. As
Dittenhoffer's major creditor, the
Babbitt Brothers assumed operation of the Red Lake Trading
Post upon his death. This was the first of a
large number of trading posts owned by the
Babbitt's on the Navajo, Hopi, Paiute, and Apache
reservations. |
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