Blanco Trading Post (Navajo: Tsii' Łizhin) was located along U.S. highway 550 in northwest New Mexico in San Juan County.

Justin and Savannah Higgins were fourth-generation traders, and Blanco had been dealing and trading with Navajos and tourists since the 1920s, when Wilfred “Tabby” and Jim Brimhall established the post.[1]

The store closed in 2010, and local oilman Tom Dugan, founder of Dugan Production Corp., purchased the trading post in April 2012.[2] The site is now a private lot used to park vehicles and store equipment.

In Tony Hillerman's book A Thief of Time, his eighth mystery novel featuring the Navajo Nation Police, anthropologist Eleanor Friedman-Bernal dropped off her mail at the post before disappearing.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Johnny D. Boggs (March 30, 2010). "On the Trading Post Trail: From Ganado, Arizona, to Tohatchi, New Mexico". True West Magazine. Retrieved 11 August 2015.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Chuck Slothower (April 23, 2012). "Blanco Trading Post sold to Tom Dugan". Farmington Daily Times. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.

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