Fact #149856

Apache Indian chief Geronimo is photographed at the wheel of a luxury roadster during a press show at a ranch located southwest of Ponca City, Oklahoma, USA. In 1972, the image will inspire singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey to write Geronimo's Cadillac, because, "the two images together, Geronimo and a Cadillac, just struck me as a song title. It was every irony I could ever think of about our culture in two words. Their attempt to make of him what we would define as a civilized person. That was the reason they put him in a Cadillac in the first place. He was actually in jail at the time." (For the record, the vehicle in the photograph was a Locomobile, not a Cadillac). An entirely different song with the name Geronimo's Cadillac (1986) will be recorded by German rock duo Modern Talking.