Desert Trader. The Life And Quilts Of Goldie Tracy Richmond

CAROLYN O'BAGY DAVIS

Publication: Sanpete Publications, 2012, Tucson

First edition. Quarto. Signed by the author. Color stiff pictorial wrappers, 119 [1] pp., foreword, introduction, double column, prologue, illustrated (many in color), acknowledgments, bibliography, interviews and correspondence. Foreword by Bernard L. Fontana. Introduction by Helen Young Frost. Rear cover promotional blurb says "Goldie Tracy Richmond 1896-1972, came to the southern Arizona desert in 1927 where she and her husband, Marion Tracy, prospected for minerals, ran traplines, and operated trading posts. At 6' 4" and 345 pounds, Goldie was a big woman with an even bigger heart-- through her generosity and compassion to everyone who crossed her path, she became known as the Angel of the Desert. In 1932 Goldie and Marion opened Tracy's Trading Post on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation. Goldie lived in this isolated area for forty years, learning the Tohono O'odham language and earning a reputation as the most respected trader on the reservation. Goldie was also an amazing quilter in spite of her pioneer life and dawn to dark work. She created applique quilts depicting scenes of daily life of her Tohono O'odlam neighbors and of the Sonoran Desert, which are revered for their artistic vision and now are preserved in museum collections." As new, unread copy.