Darton, N.H. et al. "Guidebook of the United States. Part C. The Santa Fe Route, with a side trip to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado." Dept. of the Interior, USGS. Bulletin 613. Washington: GPO, 1915. 8vo, leather boards, with gilt lettering on front, printed endpapers, 194pp. There are 26 folding maps and twenty plates depicting everything from dinosaurs that roamed the area to natural bridges and other scenic views to railroad trestles running high above the canyons. On inside of ffep, in green ink, "John P. Clum - His Book." John Philip Clum (1851-1932) was born in New York state, but in 1871 applied for a position in the newly forming U.S. meteorological service. He was inducted into the Army Signal Corps as an Observer Sergeant, and shortly after sent to Santa Fe, NM. The following year, the San Carlos Apache Reservation was formed. Because of other abuses in the Department of Indian Affairs, the Dutch Reformed Church was put in charge of the new agency, and in seeking someone to administer the agency, the church connected with Clum. He became the Indian Agent in 1874. Clum inherited the usual toxic political situation of civilian and military agencies competing for federal funds, little of which made it to the Indians. Plus typical abuse of the people, often at the hands of the military that was supposed to protect them. At San Carlos, Clum established a tribal police and court system, and instituted other self-rule measures. Although he faced the usual lack of support from the government, other agencies were closed, and their residents moved to San Carlos. Typically, little attention was given to the "compatibility" of such mergers (although in all too many cases, a "divide and conquer" policy was implemented). There was friction among a number of the Apache bands forced together at San Carlos. The situation became intolerable for Clum, and after only three years he resigned from his post. He and his wife first moved to Florence, AT, and bought the Arizona Citizen, a weekly newspaper. Following the mineral strike in Tombstone, he moved there and, now immersed in the news business, started the Tombstone Epitaph, still in operation. He organized the "Vigilance Committee" to rid Tombstone of its notorious lawlessness, an association that helped get him elected as Mayor when the town incorporated in 1881. He became friends with Wyatt Earp, and supported the lawmen in their gunfight at the OK Corral. Within a short time, as Earp's brother was assassinated by the Clanton gang, and Clum's stagecoach was fired upon by "unknown assailants," but certainly someone associated with the Clantons, both he and Wyatt decided to leave Tombstone. He moved into several postal positions, including Alaska Territory. He then worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad, promoting rail travel and tourism about 1910. It is likely that it was as a tourism promoter that he acquired this volume. It includes both railroad views and general scenic vistas. He retired to Los Angeles in 1928, where he lived until his death in 1932. Condition: Spine missing, but text block holding together. Boards are still attached, although there is cloth tape repair inside the endpapers. Edges of boards worn.
Darton, N.H. et al. "Guidebook of the United States. Part C. The Santa Fe Route, with a side trip to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado." Dept. of the Interior, USGS. Bulletin 613. Washington: GPO, 1915. 8vo, leather boards, with gilt lettering on front, printed endpapers, 194pp. There are 26 folding maps and twenty plates depicting everything from dinosaurs that roamed the area to natural bridges and other scenic views to railroad trestles running high above the canyons. On inside of ffep, in green ink, "John P. Clum - His Book." John Philip Clum (1851-1932) was born in New York state, but in 1871 applied for a position in the newly forming U.S. meteorological service. He was inducted into the Army Signal Corps as an Observer Sergeant, and shortly after sent to Santa Fe, NM. The following year, the San Carlos Apache Reservation was formed. Because of other abuses in the Department of Indian Affairs, the Dutch Reformed Church was put in charge of the new agency, and in seeking someone to administer the agency, the church connected with Clum. He became the Indian Agent in 1874. Clum inherited the usual toxic political situation of civilian and military agencies competing for federal funds, little of which made it to the Indians. Plus typical abuse of the people, often at the hands of the military that was supposed to protect them. At San Carlos, Clum established a tribal police and court system, and instituted other self-rule measures. Although he faced the usual lack of support from the government, other agencies were closed, and their residents moved to San Carlos. Typically, little attention was given to the "compatibility" of such mergers (although in all too many cases, a "divide and conquer" policy was implemented). There was friction among a number of the Apache bands forced together at San Carlos. The situation became intolerable for Clum, and after only three years he resigned from his post. He and his wife first moved to Florence, AT, and bought the Arizona Citizen, a weekly newspaper. Following the mineral strike in Tombstone, he moved there and, now immersed in the news business, started the Tombstone Epitaph, still in operation. He organized the "Vigilance Committee" to rid Tombstone of its notorious lawlessness, an association that helped get him elected as Mayor when the town incorporated in 1881. He became friends with Wyatt Earp, and supported the lawmen in their gunfight at the OK Corral. Within a short time, as Earp's brother was assassinated by the Clanton gang, and Clum's stagecoach was fired upon by "unknown assailants," but certainly someone associated with the Clantons, both he and Wyatt decided to leave Tombstone. He moved into several postal positions, including Alaska Territory. He then worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad, promoting rail travel and tourism about 1910. It is likely that it was as a tourism promoter that he acquired this volume. It includes both railroad views and general scenic vistas. He retired to Los Angeles in 1928, where he lived until his death in 1932. Condition: Spine missing, but text block holding together. Boards are still attached, although there is cloth tape repair inside the endpapers. Edges of boards worn.
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