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Title: Fort Defiance, Dark Canyon, Evans and Sontag's stronghold
Creator: Davidson, E. M
Date Created and/or Issued: [189-?]
Publication Information: Visalia : E.M. Davidson
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2010-0697.
Shows brush, trees and rocky hillside. Cave under overhang, equipment visible at one end.
Located in Dark Canyon in the area of Sampson's Flat, cave was used by Christopher Evans and John Sontag in 1893 while fleeing law officers.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on cardboard mount ; image 5 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. on mount 6 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001393432CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6797
Language: English
Subject: Evans, Christopher,, 1847-1893--Photographs
Sontag, John,, 1861 or 1862-1893--Photographs
Criminals--California--Tulare County
Rock formations--California--Tulare County
Tulare County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Tulare County
Tulare County (Calif.)

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