John Clum’s great adventure in Alaska is still legendary. John Clum is best known for his two years in Tombstone, serving as mayor,...
Clum in the Cold
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A Marriage Scheme
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...
Frontier Editors
Wherever folks settled in the rugged wilds of the West there remained a desire to keep up with what was happening “Back in the States.” Local events...
When Did Tombstone Begin to Go Into Decline?
They began to have seepage in the mines in the early 1880s. During the mid-1880s the mines penetrated the water table and the companies invested in...
The Severed Head Campaign
During Arizona’s Tonto Basin Campaign of 1872-1873, General George Crook offered $100 bounties to his scouts for the heads of a few specific...
He Missed the Scoop
John Clum was busy when the Tombstone street fight took place. It’s entirely possible to get so engrossed in a task that one misses a big...
Pastor John Clum? The Tombstone stalwart nearly became a minister.
Except for illness, Tombstone mayor and Epitaph founder John Clum might have walked a very different road. After finishing prep school, he decided...
John Clum, All-American He played in one of the first college football games.
John Clum briefly made his mark in the world of college football. In November 1870, he was on the Rutgers squad that lost to Princeton 6-2; it may...
Apache Agent Believing that the Indians would respond better if they were able to govern themselves, he organized a police force of Apache...
During the mid-1870s the federal government began using churches to staff the reservations in Arizona. The two most successful converters, the...
The Notes from Nome
What happened to Wyatt Earp’s 1900 written recollections of his adventures?
How did John Clum’s first wife die?
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.”...