The final phase of the Apache resistance, from roughly 1882 to 1886, is most associated with Geronimo, whose name and story became the most famous of all the Apache leaders in American popular culture.

But Geronimo was not operating alone, and the specific individuals who rode with him during this period were essential to the resistance’s continued effectiveness.

Geronimo — his Apache name was Goyaałé, “One Who Yawns,” but the Mexican-given name Geronimo (a Spanish form of Jerome) was the name the outside world knew him by — was a Bedonkohe Apache whose leadership during the final resistance was characterized by an absolute refusal to accept the terms being offered.

He broke out of the San Carlos reservation multiple times, each breakout followed by a period of guerrilla resistance and eventual negotiation that produced a new return to the reservation, followed by another breakout when the conditions proved intolerable.