Ball interviewed some women who had known or known of Lozen, though the specific contributions of women’s oral tradition to the documentary record of Lozen’s life are less consistently attributed in the published accounts than the men’s accounts.

The specific detail of the episode with the pregnant woman — the crossing of dangerous terrain, the presence during childbirth, the protection of mother and infant — is a detail that would be particularly meaningful in women’s oral tradition.

It was a moment in which Lozen demonstrated not only military capability but the kind of care for the vulnerable that was a core value of Apache community life.

This combination — warrior skill and maternal responsibility — would be precisely the kind of thing that women would remember and pass on as significant.