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Gomez is a Apache chief in Larry's McMurtry's novel "Dead Man's Walk". He kills Whites and Mexicans along the Jornada del Muerto. He is lame and deadly with the Bow and Arrow.

Gomez's character was based on a real Mescalero Apache chief called by the Mexicans Juan Gómez. A feared and belligerent chief, he was even nicknamed "the terror of Chihuahua."

More on Gomez: ☀http://amertribes.proboards.com/thread/2502/mescalero-chief-gomez

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