He was a famed Apache warrior who carried out a long fight against the Mexican and US military and evaded them for a year. He finally surrended in 1886. He was held a prisoner in Florida and then Oklahoma. He became a celebrity later in life. He would regale the tourists at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, he appeared at fairs, including the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, and he rode in Teddy Roosevelt's Inaugural Paraded in 1905. He died at age eighty.

Hard to find anyone anywhere that was his equal as a guerrilla leader, but in reading of him, I suspect the motivations were the historical Apache love of combat, as much as resistance to the onslaught of American civilization.