He hunted here, raided here, fought here, and repeatedly evaded capture here.

He knew places in the Sierra Madre of Mexico and in the Arizona mountains that Army officers could not find on maps.

He moved through this terrain differently from the soldiers who pursued him — not because he possessed supernatural gifts, though he claimed some, but because his knowledge of the country was intimate in a way that only a lifetime of living in a place can produce.

When he died at Fort Sill, he died in Oklahoma, on flat plains that bore no resemblance to the mountain country that had formed him.