These were the principal band of the Cho-kon-en Apaches who were called Chiricahua ( Great Mountain ) Apaches because of the Chiricahua Mountains amidst which they lived. But Cho-kon-en was their own name.

The pleasant-faced Cochise was the head chief. He was about fifty-five years old. The captain Go-yath-lay or One-who-yawns was the war chief. He was forty years old. The Mexicans whom he had fought had given him the name Geronimo (Her-on-i-mo), which is Spanish for Jerome.

There were other bands of Chiricahuas, under other chiefs Na-na and Chihuahua (Chi-wah-wah) and Loco, and so forth. Na-na was the oldest of all; he was nearly eighty, and had been wounded many times in battle yes, as many as fifteen times. Chihuahua was stout and good-natured. Loco was thin and quite bow-legged.

In the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico, which were the south end of the Chiricahua Range, were the Nedni Apaches, under old Chief Juh, or Whoa. Chief Cochise and Chief Juh frequently went to war together against the Mexicans.

Northeastward, or in western New Mexico lived the Chi-hen-ne the Ojo Caliente (Oho Cal-i-en-te) or Warm Spring Apaches, under Chief Victorio. With Chief Victorio s people the Cochise people had long been as brothers.

The woman who had charge of Jimmie was Nah-da-ste. She was a sister of Geronimo. Her husband had been killed in battle with the Mexicans. The warrior who had captured Jimmie was Geronimo s younger brother Porico, or White Horse.

Nah-che, Jimmie s chi-kis-n, was the youngest son of Chief Cochise. Geronimo the war chief liked him very much. His name meant meddlesome, for he had been a mischievous baby. In about three years, or