He was born Tzoe of the Canyon Creek clan of the Cibecue Apaches, around 1860, in the piñon-juniper canyon lands below the Mogollon Rim not far from modern-day Cibecue. Through tragic fate and loss, Tzoe, forever nicknamed “Peaches” for the pale color of his native skin by U.S. Army soldiers, would leave this sheltered beauty and travel into a world of struggling conflict brought to him by strangers and tribesmen alike. His decision to take two wives from the Chiricahua Apaches with
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