“I sold my photographs for twenty-five cents, and was allowed to keep ten cents of this for myself. “I also wrote my name for ten, fifteen, or twenty-five cents, as the case might be, and kept all of that money. I often made as much as two dollars a day, and when I returned I had plenty of money—more than I had ever owned before,” Geronimo stated in his 1906 autobiography about the St. Louis World’s Fair he had attended two years earlier. A beaded quiver and bow that he signed at th


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