Lozen rode with Geronimo during the final years of the resistance, from roughly 1882 until the final surrender in 1886.

She was part of the bands that broke out from the San Carlos reservation multiple times during this period, that conducted raids across the border into Mexico and back, that kept multiple columns of United States and Mexican military forces occupied across two countries.

The written record of this period — the military reports, the dispatches, the accounts of officers who were pursuing the Apache bands — occasionally mentions specific individuals by name, but rarely by the specific names that the Apache people used.

The presence of a formidable woman warrior among the resisters was noted by some observers, but her specific identification as Lozen and the documentation of her specific actions are largely preserved in the oral tradition rather than in the military record.