How did John Clum’s first wife die? In the movie Tombstone, Morgan Earp tells his brother Wyatt, “They hit Clum’s house too. They shot up his wife.” Did that really happen?
John Crawley
Salem, Oregon
My trusty sidekick editor Mark Boardman beat me to this one: “John Clum’s first wife (of three) was Mary Ware Clum, called Mollie, whom he married in Ohio on November 8, 1876. She died in Tombstone on December 18, 1880, about a week after giving birth to a daughter named Bes
March 2011
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Quanah Parker Looks Promising
- Hart Ranch Reopens
- Mangold’s Texas Ranger
- True Grit
- Robert Conrad Dares Ya
- Guidebooks to Tombstone
- Sweetgrass Mornings
- Law of the Gun
- Best of the West 2010: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri
- Roundup!
- The Frontier of Leisure
- Old Yellowstone Days
- The Crime Buff’s Guide to Outlaw Texas
- Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of Old Wyoming
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- How did John Clum’s first wife die?
- Was the large-loop lever rifle featured in John Wayne Westerns ever used in real life?
- What is the origin of “pistol?”
- Were Gatling guns ever used during the Indian Wars?
- What kind of gun did Pat Garrett use to kill Billy the Kid?
- Wasn’t there a TV program about Elfego Baca?
- Where did the term “shoot from the hip” come from?
- David Zucker
- Amarillo, Texas
- Making History on Horseback
- Cutting Through the Smoke
- 150 Places to Celebrate Kansas’s 150th Birthday
- Rock ‘n’ Roll Pony Express?
- How Did Davy Really Die?
- Full Steam Ahead
- Where the Bodies Are Buried
- Coffee with Lizards?
- A Deadly Oasis
- Cowboys & Steampunkers
- Will the Real John Clum Please Stand Up?
- Will the Real John Clum Please Stand Up?
- Who Needs a Chiropractor?