The character of Angie Lowe highlights the theme of women’s strength and how women’s independence is greater than what is expected of them in western stereotypes. Despite what Angie is going through, when Cochise visits after she takes down his men he asks why she doesn’t leave with her responding “Leave? Why, this is my home. This land is mine. This spring is mine. I shall not leave”(L’Armour 40). Despite being alone with her children, face to face with the Cochise; she chooses to stay. This quote shows that despite all the circumstances of her husband not returning, she is determined to do…