Imagining Geronimo An Apache Icon in Popular Culture.

Clements, William M.

Imagining Geronimo An Apache Icon in Popular Culture. - Albuquerque, NM : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (319 pages)

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Who Was Geronimo?; 1: Toward the Canonization of Geronimo; 2: Geronimo Stories; 3: Geronimo Goes to the Fair; 4: Geronimo's Spiritual Pilgrimage; 5: The Face of Geronimo; 6: Literary Geronimo; 7: Geronimo Screened; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover

Clements's study samples the repertoire of Geronimo stories and examines Americans' changing sense of Geronimo in terms of traditional patterns-trickster, social bandit, patriot chief, sage elder, and culture hero.



9780826353238


Geronimo, 1829-1909.


Apache Indians.
Geronimo, 1829-1909.
Indians in popular culture.
Apache Indians--Kings and rulers--Biography.
Indians in popular culture.


Electronic Books.

E99 / .I434 2013