… a leader of the Chiricahua Apache, and leader of a resistance to white incursions into the American Southwest. In 1861 war broke out between the Apache and the U.S. Army, Cochise and his followers fought and won many battles eluding capture for 10 years. A key war leader during the Apache Wars, he led an uprising which began in 1861 and persisted until a peace treaty was negotiated in 1872. The night he died in 1874, his warriors painted his body yellow, black, and vermilion, and took him deep into the Dragoon Mountains located in Cochise County, Arizona.