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TIL There was an old west outlaw named Chris Evans (1847-1917). The leader of of the Evans–Sontag Gang he organized multiple train robberies in California between 1889 and 1892, hid out in the mountains for 10 months, and was captured after a gun battle that cost him his right eye and left arm.

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