The two women — Lozen and the pregnant woman — were alone, without horses, in a desert landscape, with pursuing forces potentially in the area.

This was not a position of safety.

What the accounts say happened is this: Lozen found horses through a combination of tracking skill and nerve — reportedly raiding a military camp and taking horses from under the noses of sleeping soldiers.

She got the woman safely through the desert.

She was present when the woman gave birth.

She protected mother and infant through the journey until they reached a place of relative safety.

Then she continued.