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destination CAMERON TRADING POST A Favorite Haunt

SPOOKY FOOTSTEPS AND THE MYSTERIOUS turning on of lights don't phase Carol Dean. "Hubert's here," she states matter-offactly. "He's everywhere. He's not mean, just mischievous."

She's referring to Hubert Richardson. And his ghostly presence doesn't surprise Dean, who grew up and has worked at Cameron Trading Post for nearly 25 years. Hubert Richardson and his brother, C.D., emigrants from Texas to Arizona, built the trading post in 1916. Located about 50 miles north of Flagstaff on U.S. Route 89, the establishment perches on a high cliff beside the Little Colorado River. That location ordained Cameron as a crossroads of civilization and a destination for travelers in northern Arizona for nearly 90 years now.

Navajo stonemasons crafted the post's stout buildings of red Moenkopi sandstone quarried nearby. The original structures still stand, although additions and modifications have been made over the years to accommodate economic changes. The trading post now houses a curio and gift shop, stuffed with T-shirts and dreamcatchers, and a beautifully restored dining room with a pressed-tin ceiling and a wall of windows overlooking the river. The building next door, now the Collector's Gallery, carries old and new arts and crafts - jewelry, rugs, baskets, wooden flutes and beaded items made by Indians from across the country.

The motel has been expanded in harmony with the original stone architecture. Rooms are furnished with custom-made wood furniture and glazed tile. Views are inspiringthe sidling river and its bronze cliffs, the black eminence of 5,422-foot Shadow Mountain and the varicolored soft hills of the Painted Desert to the east.

Cameron's "secret" spot is the captivating courtyard garden with winding paths, a fountain, massive picnic tables of solid slabs of ripple-marked sandstone and terraced rock beds planted in sage and juniper. Hubert's first wife, Mabel, created the garden."

She had the most beautiful roses," recalls Joe Atkinson, who co-owns the post with employees. The garden helps account for one of the post's earlier names, "The Oasis."

Sitting comfortably in the middle room of