The accounts of the prisoner years that Ball collected from survivors include descriptions of the disorientation, the grief, and the specific forms of resistance that the prisoner community maintained against the conditions of captivity.

Whether specific accounts of Lozen’s experience of the prisoner years were preserved and collected is unclear; the accounts that Ball published focus more on the resistance period than on the prisoner years.

What is clear is that the person who had ridden through the mountains of New Mexico and Mexico, who had crossed the Rio Grande in flood, who had stood at the center of a military resistance for years, spent her final years in a fort in coastal Florida and died there.

The contrast between the life she had lived and the conditions in which she died is one of the starkest in the history of the Apache Wars.