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Scope and Contents Summary of notes: Kirk talks about his parents coming to New Mexico and his family’s operation of several different Indian trading posts on the Navajo reservation. He recalls his early life, schools, the hardships of the Depression, bad roads and selling finer Navajo rugs in California and Chicago and saddle blankets in Texas. He explains why the Navajos preferred to sell in Gallup instead of on the Western side of the reservation.

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Scope and Contents Summary of notes: Mr. Kennedy talks about his father, who worked at a lumber camp, then ran different Indian trading post at Chinle, Salinas Springs, Turkeky Springs and Gallup, and later owned the Rock Springs Ranch. He talks about his own childhood, schooling, trading post life, the Navajos, work on the ranch and at the Gallup Mercantile Store. He has interesting comments about how the trading posts were sometimes established without tribal approval and that leases on the land for many of the...