sentences:  Evans was born in the Dakotas and came to the Cariboo as a boy.His nickname derives from the curly, dark hair of his youth ("a mass of raven locks"), although later in life he was balding.His freighting career spanned the age from jerk-line times on the Cariboo Road to bush piloting, instructed by no less than Ginger Coote, who pioneered flying in the Bridge River and Fort St. James areas of BC.