Lieutenent Thomas Varker Keam Collection, 1842-1904.

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Lieutenent Thomas Varker Keam Collection, 1842-1904.

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Thomas Keam established himself as a trader among the Navajo and the Hopi Tribes. This collection pertains to his burial in his home country of England.

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Thomas Varker Keam was born in Kenwyn, England on August 6, 1842. He went to sea as a young man and served in several branches of the British and then American military. Honorably discharged at Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1868, Keam stayed on becoming a liscenced trader with the Indian Bureau. By 1879 he had left the tading post he and and William Leonard had established together, to what is now called Keam's Canyon. There he traded with both the Hopi and Navajos, learning both their languages fluen...