Geronimo granted permission to visit the World's Fair
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Re: Geronimo granted permission to visit the World's Fair
 maryachtrh
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Posted: 29 Feb 2008 8:47PM GMT |
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Appears in "The Wapanucka Press" 13 October 1904, Wapanucka, Johnston County, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma
TIRED OF THE FAIR
No More Attraction at St. Louis for Geronimo, and He Will Return
Lawton: Geronimo, who has been at the world's fair for several months, has asked permission of the superintendent of the Indian School on the fair grounds to return to Fort Sill, and the leave has been granted. He will leave in a few days, and will, within a week, arrive at his old home, where he loves to roam about unmolested by anyone, and to do as he pleases. He gives as his reason for wanting to return that he is tired of seeing the crowds in St. Louis, and also that he is homesick. Day after day he sat in the Indian building beating on his crude drum, singing his Indian song, which no one has been able to interpret, and occasionally writing his name in the notebook of a collector of mementoes of the fair.
TIRED OF THE FAIR
No More Attraction at St. Louis for Geronimo, and He Will Return
Lawton: Geronimo, who has been at the world's fair for several months, has asked permission of the superintendent of the Indian School on the fair grounds to return to Fort Sill, and the leave has been granted. He will leave in a few days, and will, within a week, arrive at his old home, where he loves to roam about unmolested by anyone, and to do as he pleases. He gives as his reason for wanting to return that he is tired of seeing the crowds in St. Louis, and also that he is homesick. Day after day he sat in the Indian building beating on his crude drum, singing his Indian song, which no one has been able to interpret, and occasionally writing his name in the notebook of a collector of mementoes of the fair.