ABSTRACT
The struggle which now took place between the Apaches and the Americans and Mexicans has been called the Victorio War after the war chief of the Warm Springs band who became the principal Apache leader in the conflict. ‘A worthy successor of the great Mangas Coloradas’, wrote Robert Utley, ‘Victorio was a dynamic, aggressive leader, impatient of any form of restraint, highly skilled in the methods of Apache warfare’.47 From their base in the Candelaría Mountains of northern Chihuahua, Victorio’s band raided across the border into the USA, particularly western Texas and New Mexico, but also as far west as Arizona, where they tried to lure other Apaches off the San Carlos Reservation and onto the warpath.
