Editing Cochise (section)

===Capture, escape and retirement===
[[File:CochiseStronghold.JPG|thumb|right|''Cochise Stronghold'', Dragoon Mountains, southeastern Arizona]]
Following various skirmishes, Cochise and his men were gradually driven into Arizona's [[Dragoon Mountains]], but used the mountains for cover and as a base from which to continue attacks against white settlements. Cochise evaded capture and continued his raids against white settlements and travelers until 1872. In 1871, General [[Oliver O. Howard]] was ordered to find Cochise, and in 1872, Howard was accompanied by his aide 1st Lt [[Joseph A. Sladen]] and Captain [[Samuel S. Sumner]] to Arizona to negotiate a peace treaty with Cochise. [[Tom Jeffords]], the Apache leader's only white friend, was also present. A treaty was negotiated on October 12, 1872.<ref>Sweeney, Edward R (2008). ''Making Peace with Cochise: The 1872 Journal of Captain Joseph Alton Sladen.'' Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 120–26. {{ISBN|0-8061-2973-5}}.</ref> Based on statements by Sumner and descriptions by Sladen, modern historians such as [[Robert M. Utley]] believe that Cochise's Spanish interpreter was [[Geronimo]].<ref name="Utley2012">{{cite book|last=Utley|first=Robert M.|title=Geronimo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ed5KxmJhkoYC&pg=PA1680|date=November 27, 2012|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-18900-1|pages=1680–81}}</ref>

After the peace treaty, Cochise retired to the short-lived [[Chiricahua|Chiricahua Reservation]] (1872–1876), with his friend Jeffords as agent. He died of natural causes (probably abdominal cancer) in 1874, and was buried in the rocks above one of his favorite camps in Arizona's Dragoon Mountains, now called the Cochise Stronghold. Only his people and Tom Jeffords knew the exact location of his resting place, which they never disclosed.<ref name="TreatMoran2007">{{cite book|last1=Treat|first1=Wesley|last2=Moran|first2=Mark|last3=Sceurman|first3=Mark|title=Weird Arizona: Your Travel Guide to Arizona's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LYr3fSjwfMYC&pg=PA211|year=2007|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|isbn=978-1-4027-3938-5|page=211}}</ref>

Many of Cochise's descendants reside at the [[Mescalero Apache Reservation]] near Ruidoso, New Mexico, and in Oklahoma with the [[Fort Sill Apache Tribe]] of Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache.<ref name="Turner">{{Cite book |last1=Barrett |first1=Stephen Melvil |name-list-style=amp|last2=Turner |first2=Frederick W. |year=1970 |chapter=Introduction |title=Geronimo: His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior |publisher=Dutton |location=New York |isbn=0-525-11308-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/geronimohisownst0000gero_c7e0 }}</ref>

Whether a portrait of Cochise exists is unknown; a reported portrait is actually that of a 1903 [[Pueblo of Isleta]] man named Juan Rey Abeita.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/is-this-really-the-legendary-cochise-M0vHXJD-FUCX6-ZvNZNg4g/|title=Is This Really the Legendary Cochise? |last=Aleiss|first=Angela|date=October 12, 2017|work=IndianCountryToday.com|access-date=November 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128001941/https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/is-this-really-the-legendary-cochise-M0vHXJD-FUCX6-ZvNZNg4g/|archive-date=November 28, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>