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Synopsis
Train Robber s Daughter is a thoroughly-researched, fully-footnoted biography of the daughter of one of the most notorious outlaws of the American West. In 1893, seventeen-year-old Eva appeared in a blood-and-thunder melodrama in San Francisco, playing herself. She found fame as an actress, reliving on stage the manhunt for her father, Chris Evans, and her romance with his bandit partner, John Sontag. Her own fame flared brightly but eventually burned out. After enduring harsh criticism in the press, failed marriages, drug abuse and attempted suicide, she settled down to a long life, which included a career as a photographer, social activism and friendship with Emma Goldman, a long and successful marriage, and old age spent in a sleepy California seaside village. 318 pages (plus 16 page photo section) Endnotes, Bibliography, Index 24 b/w photos, 5 newspaper line illustrations
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About the Author
Jay O'Connell is the author of Co-Operative Dreams: A History of the Kaweah Colony and co-author of A Strength Born of Giants: The Life and Time of Dr. Forest Grunigen. He served as Executive Director of the Evans and Sontag Project, producing a permanent museum exhibit on Evans and Sontag for the Tulare County Museum. He is currently researching a narrative history entitled Battle Over Mineral King: Walt Disney, the Sierra Club and a Small California Town.
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A tale of train robberies, ambushes and shoot-outs with posses, it is also a little-known saga of loyalty and betrayal surrounding Eva Evans, a young girl whose devotion to her outlaw father knew no bounds...a biography that is truly a unique and fascinating read. WILLIAM B. SECREST, author of California Desperadoes and Perilous Trails, Dangerous Men Evans and Sontag are the Frank and Jesse James of California history, and Jay O Connell s biography of Eva Evans, the train robber s daughter, explores their exploits and fascinating legacy in compelling, exciting ways. WILLIAM DEVERELL, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910
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