After ensuring the safety of the mother and newborn, she rode to rejoin the resistance — not back to the relative security of any settled life, but back to the Apache fighters who were in the most dangerous phase of their final resistance against the United States military.

The details of this account vary somewhat between different oral sources, as oral accounts do.

The core elements — the separation from the main band, the responsibility for a vulnerable woman, the crossing of difficult and dangerous terrain without support, the eventual reunion with the fighters — are consistent across sources.

This episode is illustrative of what made Lozen significant beyond her fighting ability.

She combined extreme physical competence with the kind of responsibility for the most vulnerable that the Apache moral code demanded of its leaders.