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11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. The Brooklyn Standard Union, July 30, 1905.
14. The Independent, October 5, 1905. The reporter who wrote this article is not named.
15. Ibid. The accompanying photograph suggests Fomoaley was younger than forty-eight, perhaps as much as a decade younger.
16. Ibid. All the quotes that follow in this section come from the same article in the Independent, October 5, 1905.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. The New York Morning Telegraph, June 19, 1905.
20. As recounted in the Oswego Palladium, October 11, 1905.
21. Vogue, August 1905.
22. The Livingston Democrat, March 4, 1906.
23. The Los Angeles Times, December 12, 1905. Five years later, in 1910, Ivory Soap used a picture of the Igorrotes in an advertising campaign with the caption “some people like Ivory Soap so much they have brought it nearly half way ’round the globe for them.”
24. The Syracuse Post Standard, September 26, 1906.
25. The New York Tribune, July 30, 1905.
Chapter 10
1. The St. Louis Post Dispatch, October 24, 1909.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. The Spotlight, July 1908.
5. Ibid.
6. The New York Times, August 10, 1905.
7. Ibid.
8. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 7, 1905.
9. The New York Press, August 7, 1905.
10. The New York Tribune, August 7, 1905.
11. The New York Tribune, August 16, 1905; Atlantic City Daily Press, August 16, 1905; The New York Daily Star, August 16, 1905.
12. Atlantic City Daily Press, August 16, 1905.
13. New York Herald, August 15, 1905; see also New York Herald, August 14, 1905.
14. The New York Tribune, August 28, 1905.
15. The Long Islander, August 27, 1905.
16. The New York Tribune, August 28, 1905.
17. His name was sometimes spelled Gattoman or Gotaman.
18. The New York Tribune, August 14, 1905; The New York Morning Telegraph, September 11, 1905.
19. The New York Tribune, August 14, 1905.
Chapter 11
1. The New York Times, June 12, 2005, quoting a 1939 New Yorker article by A. J. Liebling.
2. Ibid.
3. The New York Times, August 31, 1905.
4. The New York Tribune, August 31, 1905.
5. Ibid.
6. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 1, 1905; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 2, 1905.
Chapter 12
1. The New York Tribune, September 1, 1905.
2. The New York Times, September 1, 1905.
3. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 1, 1905.
4. The New York Sun, September 1, 1905.
5. The New York Evening Telegram, September 2, 1905.
6. The Nashville American, September 4, 1905.
7. St. Louis Globe Democrat, September 3, 1905.
Chapter 14
1. The Memphis Commercial Appeal, September 10, 1905.
2. The Memphis Commercial Appeal, September 11, 1905.
3. The Memphis Commercial Appeal, September 16, 1905.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. The Dallas Morning News, October 29, 1905; The Dallas Morning News, October 30, 1905.
7. The Dallas Morning News, October 28, 1905.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. The Macon Telegraph, October 21, 1905.
12. Barreto, Norberto. Imperial Thoughts: The US Congress and the Philippine Questions, 1898–1934. Stony Brook University, 2007.
13. The Macon Telegraph, November 2, 1905.
14. Quotes in this scene are from the Dallas Morning News, October 5, 1905; and the San Antonio Sunday Light, November 19, 1905.
15. In fact the bond was equivalent to around five-thousand dollars.
16. The Dallas Morning News, October 5, 1905; The San Antonio Sunday Light, November 19, 1905.
Chapter 15
1. The Tampa Morning Tribune, November 30, 1905.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. The Macon Daily Telegraph, November 30, 1905; The Tampa Morning Tribune, November 30, 1905; The Commercial Appeal, September 5, 1906.
7. NARA RG 350-13847.
Chapter 16
1. Each Igorrote was to be paid fifteen dollars a month and Julio was to be paid twenty-five dollars as interpreter and assistant.
2. NARA RG 350-13847.
3. Ibid.
4. Jenks, Albert Ernest. The Bontoc Igorot. Bureau of Public Printing, 1905; NARA RG 350-13431.
5. The Fort Wayne News, January 29, 1906.
6. NARA RG 350-13847.
7. Ibid.
8. The Daily Picayune, January 18, 1907; NARA RG 350-13847.
9. The Dallas Morning News, January 31, 1906.
Chapter 17
1. The Washington Times, August 10, 1904.
2. NARA RG 350-13847.
3. Ibid.
4. NARA RG 350-9640.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. NARA RG 350-13431.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. NARA RG 350-9640.
11. NARA RG 350-13431.
12. NARA RG 350-13847.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Fourth Annual Report of the Philippine Commission 1903 Part 1, Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department, Washington. Government Printing Office, 1904.
16. Ibid.
17. NARA RG 350-13847.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Newspaper reports and government correspondence show Pucuan died on January 28, 1906, not January 25, 1906, as Truman states in this letter.
26. NARA RG 350-13847.
Chapter 18
1. NARA RG 350-13431.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
Chapter 19
1. The factual information and events described in this chapter are taken from a wide variety of sources, including the following: NARA RG 350-13847; Sanborn-Perris Company, New York. Insurance Maps of Memphis, Tennessee, 1897, Vol. 1, Sheet 39; Sanborn Map Company, New York. Insurance Maps of Memphis, Tennessee, 1907, Vol. 1, Sheets 4, 5 & 15; R. L. Polk & Co.’s Memphis City Directory, 1906, Memphis; The Memphis Daily Appeal, December 10, 1867; Daily Picayune, January 18, 1907; Daily Picayune, February 15, 1907; Daily Picayune, February 16, 1907; Daily Picayune, September 2, 1907; Commercial Appeal, September 5, 1906; Commercial Appeal, September 6, 1906; Commercial Appeal, September 15, 1906; Commercial Appeal, September 17, 1906; Commercial Appeal, November 3, 1906; Commercial Appeal, November 6, 1906; Commercial Appeal, November 8, 1906; Commercial Appeal, November 9, 1906; Commercial Appeal, November 11, 1906; Commercial Appeal, November 23, 1906; Commercial Appeal, November 24, 1906; Commercial Appeal, November 25, 1906; Commercial Appeal, December 16, 1906; Commercial Appeal, December 21, 1906; Commercial Appeal, January 19, 1907; Commercial Appeal, February 3, 1907; Commercial Appeal, February 6, 1907; Commercial Appeal, February 7, 1907; Commercial Appeal, February 10, 1907; Commercial Appeal, February 12, 1907; Memphis News Scimitar, September 5, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, September 17, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, November 4, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, November 5, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, November 6, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, November 9, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, November 11, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, November 18, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, November 22, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, November 25, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, December 20, 1906; Memphis News Scimitar, February 6, 1907; Memphis News Scimitar, February 10, 1907; Memphis News Scimitar, February 11, 1907; The Paducah Evening Sun, Sep
tember 5, 1906; The Paducah Evening Sun, November 10, 1906; and the author’s personal communication with the Shelby County court archivist.
2. NARA RG 350-13847.
3. The Independent, October 5, 1905.
4. NARA RG 350-13847.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
Chapter 20
1. The Chicago Daily Tribune, June 10, 1906.
2. NARA RG 350-13847; The Chicago Daily Tribune, May 26, 1907; The Chicago Daily Tribune, May 27, 1906.
3. The Chicago Daily Tribune, May 27, 1906.
4. Ibid; The Chicago Daily Tribune, June 3, 1906.
5. NARA RG 350-13847.
6. NARA RG 350-13431.
7. Sanger, Gen. J. P., dir. Census of the Philippine Islands Taken under the Direction of the Philippine Commission in the Year 1903, Vol. 2. United States Bureau of the Census, 1905; Blount, James, H. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898 to 1912, J. P. Putnam’s and Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1913.
8. NARA RG 350-13847.
Chapter 21
1. NARA RG 350-13847.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
Chapter 22
1. NARA RG 350-13847.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid; The Chicago Daily News, June 21, 1906.
9. NARA RG 350-13847.
Chapter 23
1. NARA RG 350-13847.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. The Manitoba Free Press, July 4, 1906; The Winnipeg Telegram, July 6, 1906.
7. NARA RG 350-13847.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
Chapter 24
1. The Syracuse Post Standard, June 30, 1906; Variety, July 1906.
2. The Syracuse Post Standard, July 4, 1906.
3. The Syracuse Daily Journal, July 13, 1906.
4. NARA RG 350-13847.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid. Note that the letter in which this incident is described is erroneously dated June 9, 1906, but the context makes clear it was written on July 9, 1906.
8. Ibid.
9. The Sentinel, Vol. XXVIII, Number 11, December 15, 1917.
10. NARA RG 350-13847.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. The Syracuse Herald, February 21, 1904.
14. The Washington Post, February 22, 1904.
15. The Syracuse Herald, February 21, 1904; The Washington Post, February 22, 1904.
16. NARA RG 350-13847.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
Chapter 25
1. NARA RG 350-13847; NARA at Chicago, RG 21-9766, US District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, Chicago, Civil Case Files, 1871–1911.
2. Ibid.
Chapter 26
1. The events described in this chapter are taken from a wide variety of sources, including the following: The Chicago Daily News, July 18, 1906; The Chicago Daily News, July 19, 1906; NARA RG 21-9766; NARA RG 350-13847; The Chicago Daily News, July 16, 1906; The Chicago Inter Ocean, July 16, 1906; The New York Sun, July 18, 1906; The Chicago Tribune, July 19, 1906; The Nashville American, July 19, 1906; The Syracuse Herald, July 19, 1906; The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, July 19, 1906; The Chicago Daily News, July 26, 1906; The Lowville Journal and Republican, July 26, 1906.
2. The Chicago Daily News, July 18, 1906.
3. NARA RG 350-13847.
4. Ibid; The Chicago Daily News, July 18, 1906; The Chicago Daily News, July 19, 1906.
5. NARA RG 350-13847.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. The Chicago American Evening Edition, July 18, 1906; The Chicago Evening Post, July 18, 1906; The Chicago Daily News, July 18, 1906; The Chicago Daily News, July 19, 1906; The Chicago Chronicle, July 19, 1906; NARA RG 350-13847.
10. NARA RG 350-13847.
11. The Chicago Daily Tribune, December 9, 1906.
12. NARA RG 350-13847.
13. The Chicago American Evening Edition, July 18, 1906; NARA RG 350-13847.
14. The Chicago Inter Ocean, July 19, 1906; NARA RG 350-13847.
15. NARA RG 350-13847.
16. Ibid.
17. The Boston Evening Transcript, July 19, 1906.
Chapter 27
1. NARA RG 350-13847.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. The Commercial Appeal, September 5, 1906; The Commercial Appeal, September 6, 1906.
6. NARA RG 350-13847.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Seidenadel, Carl W. The First Grammar of the Language Spoken by the Bontoc Igorot, with a Vocabulary and Texts, Mythology, Folklore, Historical Episodes, Songs. Open Court Publishing Company, 1909.
22. The Albany Evening Journal, August 6, 1906.
23. NARA RG 350-13847.
Chapter 28
1. Her name also appears in official correspondence as Tanas.
2. NARA RG 350-13847.
3. Ibid.
4. The New York Tribune, July 22, 1906.
5. NARA RG 350-13847.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
Chapter 29
1. Letter from Barker to Charlton at Bureau of Insular Affairs, NARA RG 350-13847.
2. NARA RG 350-13847.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Jenks, Albert Ernest. The Bontoc Igorot. Bureau of Public Printing, 1905.
10. Tennessee the Volunteer State 1769–1923: Volume 4. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1923.
11. NARA RG 350-13847; The Memphis News Scimitar, November 5, 1906; The Commercial Appeal, November 6, 1906; The Memphis News Scimitar, November 6, 1906.
12. The Commercial Appeal, November 6, 1906.
13. The Commercial Appeal, November 8, 1906.
14. NARA RG 350-13847.
15. Ibid.
16. The Sentinel, Vol. XXVIII, Number 11, December 15, 1917.
17. The Commercial Appeal, November 3, 1906.
18. The song, a hit in America and Europe, was recorded by Billy Murray (who also recorded “Meet Me Down at Luna, Lena”), and was later featured in the repertoire of Groucho Marx.
19. Havez, Jean, C. “Everybody Works but Father.” 1905.
20. NARA RG 350-13847.
Chapter 30
1. NARA RG 350-13847.
2. The Memphis News Scimitar, November 22, 1906.
3. Ibid.
4. The Commercial Appeal, November 24, 1906.
5. NARA RG 350-13847.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. The Commercial Appeal, January 19, 1907; NARA RG 350-13847.
12. NARA RG 350-13847.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
Chapter 31
1. All quotations from the trial transcription in this chapter are from NARA RG 350-13847.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
> 5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. The Memphis News Scimitar, February 10, 1907.
17. NARA RG 350-13847; The Memphis News Scimitar, February 10, 1907; The Memphis News Scimitar, February 11, 1907.
18. NARA RG 350-13847.
19. Ibid.
Chapter 32
1. NARA RG 350-13847.
2. The Labor World, March 16, 1907.
3. NARA RG 350-13847.
4. Smith, Samuel Francis. “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” 1831.
Afterword
1. NARA RG 350-9640.
2. Seidenadel, Carl W. The First Grammar of the Language Spoken by the Bontoc Igorot, with a Vocabulary and Texts, Mythology, Folklore, Historical Episodes, Songs. Open Court Publishing, 1909.
3. The New York Sun, May 16, 1909.
4. The New York Times, June 2, 1909.
5. The New York Tribune, June 2, 1909.
6. The New York Press, September 19, 1909.
7. NARA RG 350-13431.
8. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 19, 1924.
9. The Commercial Appeal, January 1933.
10. The New York Times, May 7, 2012.
11. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, September 9, 1906; The Oswego Daily Palladium, October 6, 1906; The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, August 31, 1906; The Rome Daily Sentinel, October 6, 1906; NARA RG 350-13847.
12. His name was sometimes spelled Taynan.
13. Antero was known as “Balonglong” in his early years.
14. The Evening News, December 21, 1915.
15. The New York Sun, September 2, 1907.
16. The Washington Post, September 2, 1917.
17. The New York Tribune, October 6, 1917.
18. The New York Times, June 9, 1906.
19. The St. Louis Post Dispatch, October 24, 1909.
20. The New York Times, October 25 1909.
21. The New York Press, February 12, 1911.
22. Her name was sometimes spelled Dogmeena or Doakmena.
23. The New York Times, February 13, 1912.
24. The New York Press, February 12, 1911.
25. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 17, 1931.
26. http://apps.westpointaog.org/Memorials/Article/3106/ Viewed on February 14, 2014.
27. The New York Sun, October 14, 1917.
28. The National Democrat, January 25, 1912.
29. The Cedar Rapids Republican, February 23, 1916.
30. Truman Hunt Military Pension Application File and Compiled Military Service File, NARA, Washington, DC.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.