The final breakout in 1885 began a period of about a year during which Geronimo’s band — which at various times numbered between thirty and a hundred people, including women, children, and elders who had to be protected and moved with the fighting force — evaded the largest deployment of Army forces ever assembled against Apache resisters.

General Nelson Miles eventually commanded approximately five thousand regular Army troops and Apache scouts in the pursuit of a band that at its core numbered fewer than fifty fighting men.

Lozen was among those who rode with Geronimo during this period.

The specific episodes of her participation in the Geronimo campaigns are preserved primarily in the oral accounts, which describe her continuing in the same roles she had played during the Victorio War: fighting when combat was necessary, locating enemy positions through her gift, contributing to the tactical decisions that kept the band alive and free.

The final surrender in September 1886 came not primarily from military defeat but from exhaustion — from the sustained impossibility of maintaining the resistance indefinitely against opponents with the specific material advantages the Army possessed.