The physical capability is the most straightforwardly remarkable element.

To ride as she is described as riding — to cover the distances, to endure the conditions, to fight in the engagements described over the course of years — required a level of physical fitness and endurance that very few people, of any sex or background, could match.

The specific physical demands of the Apache resistance were extreme by any standard, and meeting them consistently over years of sustained campaigning was an achievement that the oral accounts rightly treat as noteworthy.

The spiritual gift — the power to locate enemies — is described as a gift received through ceremony and prayer, and as something that set her apart from other warriors regardless of their physical capability.