Winslow Wetherill

There is not much written about Winslow Wetherill or his activities in the Southwest. He was loosely considered the Black Sheep of the Wetherill family and the family marksmen. His son Milton Wetherill followed family tradition and was a distinguished archeologists at the Museum of Northern Arizona.

Winslow opened a Trading post in 1901. It was a rock building above the Coal Creek Wash with a nearby coal supply. A 1907 Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey, Volumes 315-316 By Geological

Survey (U.S.) describes the mine and it's coal deposit. The coal mine was upstream about 200 yards form the trading post. It also mentions the trading post nearby as the Tiz-Natzin. The correct spelling is actually Tiz-Nat-Zin. About 15 miles Northeast of the Tiz-Nat-Zin Trading Post was the John

Wetherill Ojo Alamo Trading Post. During this time period the entire area around Chaco Canyon and the Bisti Badlands suffered from a severe drought which caused severe hardship for many trading posts in the area. I suspect the Tis-Nat-Zin was not an exception. The name Tiz-Nat-Zin was related to the Crane petroglyph near the trading post.