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Crystal Trading Post in New Mexico has a place in the history of Navajo textiles unlike any other post of its time except Ganado Trading Post in Arizona-and that time was in the first quarter of the 20^th century.  The first permanent trading post business in the Chuska Mountains was established in 1894 by Joe Wilkin and Elmer Whitehouse.  Two years later, Joe Reitz bought out Whitehouse and J. B. Moore bought out Wilkin.  The following year, Moore became the sole owner of the post and named it Crystal after a very pure and sparkling mountain spring that ran by the post.

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