It has been said that two sagas of the Southwest stand out above all others: the Apache Wars and the turbulent years of Tombstone, Arizona, in the early 1880s. No one was more intimately involved in these events than John Clum. As an Indian agent, Clum was decades ahead of his time. He respected the Apache and, years before Buffalo Bill Cody, took a number of them to the Eastern states as part of a Wild West road show. He was also an Indian fighter who out-foxed Geronimo and took him prisoner at the Warm Springs Reservation in New Mexico. Later he would serve as mayor of Tombstone, and he would found the most famous newspaper in the West, the "Tombstone Epitaph". During his Tombstone years, Clum would befriend the Earp brothers and would support them in their feud with the Clanton gang. The autobiography and related memoirs collected here have not previously been published in book form. Carefully annotated by Neil Carmony, "Apache Days and Tombstone Nights" offers John Clum's singular view of notable events in Southwest history.
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"Clum chronicles Tombstone and the old Southwest, one who lived and tasted the life and times of which he spoke." -- Leon C. Metz
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Last of the Frontiersmen.,
By Jay (CROYDON, SURREY United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Maybe the best book that I have read so far about the Old West.Superbly edited by Neil Carmony. I particularly liked the way his corrections and historical notes to Clums autobiography were within the chapters, which made reading so much easier and informative.
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An enjoyable narrative about the old west from someone who was there. This isn't Hollywood, folks. This is the real thing.
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Not as well written as I hoped. Kinda boring compared to other writers.
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