Podcasts?! Yes! Find the shinybright recordings of Eva's Outlaws below, or via Lisa's radio show The Passerby.
In each 2-hour recording you can listen to The Passerby in the first hour, then Eva's Outlaws in the second hour!
Episode 1:
Passerby: 04/15/09
Episode 2:
Passerby: 04/22/09
Episode 3:
Passerby: 04/29/09
Episode 4:
Passerby: 05/06/09
(That's right Aunt Sarah... It's the caste system of the pod people, aaaiieeeeeeee!)
Railroad Monopoly as The Octopus
In the arms of the octopus, clockwise from top left:
- Railroad directors' mansions subsidized by federal bonds
- Wheat Export
- Stage Lines
- Lumber Dealers
- Fruit Growers
- The Farmers
- Mining
- Wine
- The Telegraph
G. Frederick Keller's 1882 cartoon "The Curse of California" appeared in The Wasp, a satirical newspaper edited by the notorious Ambrose Bierce.
A giant octopus stands for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company's stranglehold on commerce. The image was memorialized in Frank Norris' 1901 novel of wheat farmers, The Octopus.
For its eyes the Railroad octopus has Charles Crocker, the construction magnate, and Leland Stanford, the Company's political glad-hander in California and later founder of a university.
At left a tenth arm waits, as if held in reserve for a new victim. Perhaps the tenth arm has just finished laying to rest the men shot in the Mussel Slough Tragedy. Their graves are marked "Killed By the Railroad Monster."
Chris Evans recounts the Battle of Mussel Slough with his typical bravado in the first episode of Eva's Outlaws. Listen to a podcast of the show in "Passerby: 04/15/09" at the halfway point.
...Or perhaps the tenth arm in its concealed position is hiding the Railroad's imported Chinese laborers and California's race problems?
What is most striking in "The Curse of California"? While one might view the severe cruelty of Keller's octopus in aesthetic terms, its size and spread are no exaggeration of the economic circumstances.
We can't really intuit how profoundly the Southern Pacific wielded its influence in the California of those times. The Railroad monopoly exerted very broad control, far greater than functions of dollars or miles of track... influence without quantity.
What was it, some strange genus unclassified to this day?
At any rate, one can imagine Chris Evans and his friends, yeoman farmers, railroad workers, looking at this political cartoon in wonder...
What is that thing?!
Somewhere from within the blank mugs of those railroad barons (or in spite of them) projects the image of the modern faceless corporation... the behemoth, unique, beyond the limit, extension of man.
Yet another chapter in the riveting tale!! Wednesday April 29th, 9:00 a.m.!
Radio play?! some have muttered. What sort of thorny personalities would do such a thing? Well here are a few! Left to Right:SEAMUS reads Chris Evans & other shysters
LULU UKULELE does Sam the Dog & coaches us on beastie voices
ANDREW reads John Sontag & other crustaceans
LISA reads Eva Evans & somehow hosts the show
SKYLER plays accordion & reads various droogs
DAN reads various chellovecks
DANNY does sound FX & reads various malchicks
& BRENDAN (not pictured, will be apprehended soon) does a little of everything, reads various stockjobbers & takes surprise photos
EPISODE 2 A JOY TO THE EARS!
The folks at Thieves and Tygers have done it again, with fanfare and accordion they've blown open your eardrums with train robbing excitement.
Synopsis of Episode 2:
The train at Pixley was robbed for 5,000 smackeroos, a family called the Evans's shared a meal and discussed the robbery, another train is robbed at Goshen, this time unburdening a drunken Bank Messenger of 20,000 green backs. Our friends the Evans family move to Modesto to start a livery stables business. Young Eva Evans is suspicious that her father, Chris Evans, and her Fiance, John Sontag, may be the very train robbers discussed in the papers. Our episode ended with the destruction of the Livery Stables, burned to the ground in the middle of the night, we left Chris Evans sobbing on the shoulder of his 14 year old daughter. How will they move on from this awful set back? Rob another train? Probably...
You'll have to listen to find out!
Episode 3 of Eva's Outlaws: California Train Robbers
Wednesday the 29th at 9am
Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm
Tune in or be square!
Synopsis of Episode 2:
The train at Pixley was robbed for 5,000 smackeroos, a family called the Evans's shared a meal and discussed the robbery, another train is robbed at Goshen, this time unburdening a drunken Bank Messenger of 20,000 green backs. Our friends the Evans family move to Modesto to start a livery stables business. Young Eva Evans is suspicious that her father, Chris Evans, and her Fiance, John Sontag, may be the very train robbers discussed in the papers. Our episode ended with the destruction of the Livery Stables, burned to the ground in the middle of the night, we left Chris Evans sobbing on the shoulder of his 14 year old daughter. How will they move on from this awful set back? Rob another train? Probably...
You'll have to listen to find out!
Episode 3 of Eva's Outlaws: California Train Robbers
Wednesday the 29th at 9am
Pirate Cat Radio 87.9fm
Tune in or be square!
THE ROBBERS HAVE LANDED
The first episode of Eva's Outlaws a resounding success.
Brief Synopsis of Episode 1:
We were introduced to a storyteller, family man, and farmer Christopher Evans, and his daughter Eva. We met John Sontag, injured and out of work brakeman for the Southern Pacific Rail Company, and due to certain circumstances, sworn enemy of his former employer. We heard the atrocities performed in the name of justice in the Mussel Slough Tragedy. And we left our performance with the start of a train robbery in Pixley, California.
Don't miss Episode 2, April 22nd at 9am. The robberies continue, and so does the drama!
Brief Synopsis of Episode 1:
We were introduced to a storyteller, family man, and farmer Christopher Evans, and his daughter Eva. We met John Sontag, injured and out of work brakeman for the Southern Pacific Rail Company, and due to certain circumstances, sworn enemy of his former employer. We heard the atrocities performed in the name of justice in the Mussel Slough Tragedy. And we left our performance with the start of a train robbery in Pixley, California.
Don't miss Episode 2, April 22nd at 9am. The robberies continue, and so does the drama!
Serial radio drama Eva's Outlaws! First episode April 15th at 9:00 a.m.
Thieves and Tygers and The Passerby present Eva's Outlaws: California Train Robbers on Pirate Cat Radio, Wednesday April 15th, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. on this and three succeeding dates!
Tune in to 87.9 FM, or listen online at www.piratecatradio.com! From 8:00 to 10:00 in the morning many wonderful things happen on The Passerby! And at 9:00 an incredibly satisfying serial drama!
Dramatic theatre! The only and best vehicle for Eva's Outlaws, the tale of Evans and Sontag in the 1890s! They were agrarian settlers, and theirs were unruly passions! Their voice: brutal train robbery to match the violence done to the people and lands of California's verdant San Joaquin Valley -- by the Southern Pacific Railroad!
Listen in for high adventure, hard-fought ideals, political mayhem, the play within the play, and a media sensation the like never before experienced in the Golden State! With music by Accordion Apocalypse!
A story that just tells itself! with clever narration by Eva Evans: daughter of one robber, fiancée of the other, and mistress of none but her own fantastic narrative engine!
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