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Geronimo driving a brand new Locomobile Model C, 1905 (media.kbin.social)
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[–] sab@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I guess it's also a period in which people were going crazy about Buffalo Bill's Wild West show - it's a strange period of history in which the glorification and mythification of the past started before the dust had even settled.