This fairly early reproduction of Adolph F. Muhr's famous exposure shows the legendary apache Geronimo during the last phase of his life, a time when he lived in an Oklahoma reservation and made a living selling photographs of himself. In the earlier years Geronimo had been a proud warrior and medicine man and one of the last Indian chiefs, who fought the US government's systematic subjugation of Indian self-assertion.

The name “Geronimo” was always the name used by his opponents, never by himself. Among his people he was known as “Goyathlay”. “Geronimo”, a Mexican interpretation of the pronunciation of his birth name, is also the Spanish version of the church father Hieronymus.

The present photograph is interesting thereby that it is a relatively early reproduction of Adolph F. Muhr's original image.