The nature of the social occasions — formal dinners, receptions, cocktail parties — meant that alcohol was universally present and that abstaining would have been conspicuous in a way that would have created its own problems.

He was not the only person on the tour who drank, but he drank more than he should have, and by some accounts his behavior at certain events caused concern among the tour’s organizers.

He was also, during this period, being subjected to something that would be called, in modern terms, racialization.

The press coverage of the tour consistently identified him as the Pima Indian — often as the only identification, as though his being Native American was the primary fact about him that warranted comment.

The other two survivors were described in more individualized terms: Gagnon was from New Hampshire, Bradley was from Wisconsin.