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halfway up the San Gabriel Mountains,
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most of the rest of his life,
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trying to escape the infamy of his father's legacy.
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Brown was captured in the Engine House.
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They tried to run him through with a sword.
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They beat him over the head, they bloodied him up but,
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as the story goes, he was saved by a huge brass belt buckle he had,
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and they kept stabbing at him
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and they kept hitting the brass belt buckle.
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He was captured, put in jail in Charles Town,
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Virginia, just four miles up the road.
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And in November 1859 he would get the most famous,