Texas Rangers) Victorio fooled all of them during more than one month. On August 9, 1880, Victorio and his band attacked a stagecoach and mortally wounded retired Major General James J. Byrne. Last stand and death In October 1880, in north-eastern Chihuahua (a land well-known to the Guadalupe and Limpia Southern Mescaleros), having sent Nana and Mangus to raid for food and ammunition, Victorio, with only a few warriors and even less ammunition, and his band were surrounded and killed by soldiers of the Mexican Army under Colonel Joaquin Terrazas in the Battle of Tres Castillos (). An 1886 appendix for Papers Relating to the Foreign Nations of the United States states that, contemporaneously, the Tarahumara Scout credited with killing Victorio in 1880 was Mauricio Corredor. The Apache version states that Victorio actually committed suicide with a knife rather than face capture, historians such as Kathleen Chamberlain note that the Mexicans at the battle could not identify which body was Victorio's. Victorio in popular culture Hondo (U.S., 1953) by John Farrow, with Michael Pate as Victorio; Fort Bowie (U.S., 1958) by Howard W. Koch with Larry Chance as Victorio; Apache Rifles (U.S., 1964) by William Witney with Joseph Vitale as Victorio; Hondo (U.S., 1967) by Lee H. Katzin, with Michael Pate as Victorio; Buffalo Soldiers (U.S., 1997) by Charles Haid with Harrison Lowe as Victorio. An Apache chief named "Vittorio" and loosely based on Victorio appears as a minor antagonist in Harry Whittington's 1963 novel Desert Stake-Out. Vittorio takes several people captive after learning that one of them murdered his brother, but later releases them upon learning that the killer is already dead and that the novel's protagonist, Merrick, is well regarded by the Mescaleros. In the Philippe Morvan's novel, Ours, published in 2018 by Calmann-Lévy, Victorio is an important character of the plot. Mentioned in Ulzana's Raid by Burt Lancaster. In famous comics Blueberry (comic), an Apache chief "Vittorio", again loosely based on Victorio is a recurrent character. See also Victorio Peak Battle of Hembrillo Basin Battle of Tres Castillos References Further reading page 127 Lehmann Hermann, Nine Years with the Indians, 1870-1879, The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians, 2017 Lehmann Hermann, A New Look at Nine Years with the Indians, 1985 Kathleen P. Chamberlain, Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 Karl W. Laumbach, Hembrillo, an Apache Battlefield