During the 1870s in the American Southwest the Native Indian tribes were sent to Indian reservations. Starting in 1877 an Indian by the name of Victorio decided to leave the reservation system. By doing so he was breaking American laws and treaties. He spent the next three years on the run. While remaining off the reservations Victorio and his band of Indians attacked American settlers and some Mexican ranchers south into Mexico. Most of the time he avoided detection using the terrain and because his group of renegade Indians never amounted to much more than about three hundred men they became hard to find. These Indians ran from the American Army sent to the southwest to capture or kill them. It would take three years for these hostilities to end....

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