John Clum’s plan to have the government pay for his wedding.
John Clum was the successful Indian agent at the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. His fiancée lived in Ohio. Clum found an interesting way to pay for the trip east. He put together a troupe of 22 Apaches and started a Wild West show. It did several performances on the way to Washington, DC, where Clum met with his bosses. They ordered him to return to the reservation—but they also gave him a sizeable sum of money to go home. He had enough to stop in Ohio on November 8, 1876, and get married.
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