John Sontag
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John Sontag was an outlaw of the American West known for train robberies.
John Sontag Tulare County Library
John Sontag wounded at Battle of Stone Corral 1893
Chris Evans after the shootout at the Stone Corral.
Christopher Evans (outlaw)
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Christopher Evans, a native of Bells Corners near Ottawa, Canada West, was an American farmer and teamster turned outlaw, and the leader of the Evans–Sontag Gang.
John Sontag
…failure to care for his on-the-job wounds and their refusal to rehire him after he had healed. In 1889, John Sontag was working on the farm of Canadian Christopher "Chris" Evans near Visalia in Tulare County. Evans was outraged by Southern Pacific's high freight rates and the pressuring of landowners to sell their property to…
Sketch taken from a locket photograph of Chris Evans taken on his wedding day in 1871
Chris Evans' Redwood Ranch that he built with his brother, Tom, in 1875. Chris' eldest daughter, Eva, is sitting on the front steps.
Molly Byrd Evans, taken in 1893 when she was thirty-four years old