Friends--My grandfather told me a story about Evans and Sontag in a shoot out in Visalia about 1890. My grandfather lay on the roof of his grandmother's porch and watched the law unsuccessfully attempt to capture the outlaws. A young friend who later became his brother-in-law joined him watching. This site was in the north part of Visalia near a small park along the road north toward Fresno County. Apparently there was considerable sympathy for the outlaws among many of the Tulare County residents. Lew ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Tulare County was pretty thick with anti-railroad sentiments still, and Sontag & Evans 'hid' behind a Robin-hood-like facade, 'sticking it' to the railroad. This front was romanticized and popularized among some circles for quite a while. My mother grew up in Stone Corral during the Depression, the stories were still freely floating around then. Tulare and Kern county both had their share of popular "bad boys" up until as late as the 1920's in Kern county, even. -deb At 04:12 PM 9/1/01, Lewis Howell wrote: >Friends--My grandfather told me a story about Evans and Sontag in a shoot >out in Visalia about 1890. My grandfather lay on the roof of his >grandmother's porch and watched the law unsuccessfully attempt to capture >the outlaws. A young friend who later became his brother-in-law joined >him watching. This site was in the north part of Visalia near a small >park along the road north toward Fresno County. Apparently there was >considerable sympathy for the outlaws among many of the Tulare County >residents. Lew >________________________________________________________________ >GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! >Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! >Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.