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Wild Apaches in the Effete East: A Theatrical Adventure of John P. Clum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Pat M. Ryan
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No one at the Indian Bureau, in Washington, seemed interested when, early in the summer of 1876, Indian Agent John P. Clum suggested taking a carload of his San Carlos Apaches back East –“to see the greatness of our United States and become impressed by the progress of their white brothers.” So Clum relates in the semi-autobiographical book Apache Agent.

Two years before, in Feburary, 1874, he had been commissioned :by President Grant as Agent for the Apaches at the San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona Territory.

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Research Article
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , November 1965 , pp. 147 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1965

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NOTES

1 Woodworth Clum (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1936), p. 185. Cf. Clum, John P., “Apaches as Thespians in 1876,” New Mexico Historical Review, VI (January, 1931), 76–99.Google Scholar

2 For details concerning the Santa Fe years, see Clum, John P., “Santa Fe in the 70s,” New Mexico Historical Review, II (1927), 380–386Google Scholar; Ryan, Pat M., “Sojourn in Santa Fe: John P. Clum's Halcyon Years,” Midwest Review, V (1963), 48–60.Google Scholar

3 A. L. S., Special Collections, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, Arizona.

4 “Indian Agent John P. Clum passed through [Silver City] on the 6th instant with a party of wild Apaches, sixteen bucks and four squaws, from San Carlos Agency, Arizona, on their way to Washington and Philadelphia.” Santa Fe New Mexican, August 15, 1876.

5 Santa Fe New Mexican, September 4, 1876.

6 Apache Agent, p. 192.

7 Ibid., p. 193.

8 “Apaches as Thespians in 1876,” 93–94.

9 Special Collections, University of Arizona Library.

10 Clum had already submitted a letter of resignation; but at St. Louis, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs yielded sufficiently to his demands for a cessation of Army interference at San Carlos (and for a raise in salary) that he was persuaded to continue in his post.

11 Washington, October 3, 1876… “Taza died here on September 26. General [O. O.] Howard and Commissioner Smith attended the funeral. Dr. Hankin of Grant Place Church, conducted the services. The Indians were much pleased with the manner of the burial.…” Arizona Citizen (Tucson), October 28, 1876.

12 Apache Agent, p. 196.

13 See Ogle, Ralph H., “John P. Clum and the Triumph of Civil Control” [Chapter VI], Federal Control of the Western Apaches, 1848–1886 (Albuquerque, 1940), pp. 144–178Google Scholar; Ryan, Pat M., “John P. Clum: ‘Boss-with-the-White-Forehead’,” Arizoniana, V, No. 3 (Fall, 1964), 48–60.Google Scholar