— ALONE AND OUTNUMBERED — In the soft glow of twilight, Alameda County Sheriff Harry N. Morse guided a small posse into the Sausalito Valley in the Panoche Mountains in early 1871, conducting a relentless manhunt for a band of outlaws headed by the ruthless Juan Soto.  

Days earlier, Soto and his men had stormed a general store in Sunol, looted the place, and killed a clerk by [...]
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