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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not well-informed on the parade myself, just seems odd to include Geronimo as a uniting symbol at the time.

[-] sab@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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