In 1804, a band of 1000 Navaho indians laid siege to a southern Rockies Spanish settlement called Cebolleta. The siege lasted two weeks until Spanish soldiers finally arrived to drive away the attackers. During the fight, a corn farmer named Domingo Baca got into a hand to hand struggle with an Indian and wound up being disemboweled by the foe's lance. Baca strapped a pillow around his belly with a belt and got right back into the fight. That night, when the fighting had dulled, Baca removed the pillow, his guts partly spilling out before horrified onlookers who immediately began to pray for this obvious dead man. Baca shoved his guts back inside his belly, called for a needle and sinew (thread made from deer fiber tissue) and calmy sewed his stomach shut. He recovered in time to rejoin the fight before the relievers arrived.
Just my opinion, but I think Baca was even tougher than Richard Simmons.
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