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Title
Mount "Look Out" stronghold of outlaws
Date Created and/or Issued
[189-?]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2009-3177.
Shows rocky area of hillside, cooking equipment, single man with rifle.
Accused of train robbery, Christopher Evans and John Sontag eluded pursuit for some ten months, hiding in foothills of Fresno and Tulare County. Had series of camps, one at Lookout, now Sontag, Point.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print on boudoir mount ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001393545CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6912
Language
English
Subject
Sontag, John,, 1861 or 1862-1893--Photographs
Evans, Christopher,, 1847-1917--Photographs
Criminals--California--Fresno County
Pots & pans
Fresno County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Place
California
Fresno County
Fresno County (Calif.)

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