BANDIT LORE
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BANDIT LORE
With Sylvester & Mortimer
Two raccoon outlaws dig up the Great Plains' buried history — what the record proves, and what the locals only ever whispered.
Scroll to the wanted wall
Episodes
The wanted wall
Every card shows its Record side. Flip it for the Lore.
No. 2 · The RecordThe Archive
The Big Springs Train Heist
Big Springs, Nebraska · 1877 · 11:43
St. Louis Globe-DemocratVol. 3 — No. 132
Late September 1877
Daring Detectives.
How the Western Train Robbers Were Hunted Down.
The Leader Identified in Spite of His Mask.
Sylvester reads the RecordFlip for the Lore →
No. 2 · The LoreThe Archive
Under the lone tree
Six outlaws counted out sixty thousand in gold under one cottonwood, and folks around here still like to believe not all of it left. People have walked these fields with detectors. People still do.
Mortimer tells the Lore← Back to the Record
No. 1 · The RecordField Notes
The Walgren Lake Monster
Hay Springs, Nebraska · 1923 · 11:53
Hay Springs NewsSept. 16, 1921
If It Isn't a Whale It's a Whaler of An Animal
No. 1 · The LoreField Notes
The ears make weather
The least twitch of his ears makes weather on the lake. One good earth-roll bounced a carload of tourists clean to Valentine, a hundred miles.
Mortimer tells the Lore← Back to the Record
Two ways to tell it
Every story has a record. And then it has the lore.
The Record · Sylvester
What the documents say. Inquests, ledgers, county papers, dated and sourced. Sylvester reads all of it, including the boring pages, because that is where the story was hiding the whole time.
The Lore · Mortimer
What the locals passed down. The version told after the second cup of coffee, by folks who were not there but whose grandmother was. Mortimer tells it the way it was told to him, and he would point out the record had to start somewhere.
The Podcast
Every episode, wherever you listen.
Season 1, ongoing. Same two outlaws, same two versions of every story.
Your hosts
The Boys
Sylvester
The Mets cap · Reads the Record.
Keeps the receipts. Has read every inquest in three states and will tell you the page number. If it is written down, he has found it; if it is not, he wants to know why. The one who already has a plan before Mort finishes the sentence.
Mortimer
The fedora · Tells the Lore.
Knows a fellow whose uncle saw it. Delivers the wildest line in the room like he is reading a weather report. Loves a beautiful number, a shiny object, and a fun fact he is confident about and occasionally right about. Has never once let a story end where the paperwork did.
Support the show
Keep the Bandits digging
This is gold… Bandit gold.
Every story costs a few late nights and a lot of microfilm. If it was worth your time, it's worth a coffee.
What this site can do
Everything on this page is for sale. Except the raccoons.
Whitestone Design built this site, lantern and all. If you want one that flips, spins, follows and lingers like this one, that is a conversation the Boys are happy to have on your behalf.
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BANDIT LORE
With Sylvester & Mortimer
Two raccoon outlaws dig up the Great Plains' buried history — what the record proves, and what the locals only ever whispered.
Episodes
The wanted wall
The Big Springs Train Heist
Big Springs, Nebraska · 1877 · 11:43
No. 1 · The LoreField Notes
The ears make weather
The least twitch of his ears makes weather on the lake. One good earth-roll bounced a carload of tourists clean to Valentine, a hundred miles.
← Tap for the Record
No. 2 · The RecordThe Archive
The Big Springs Train Heist
Big Springs, Nebraska · 1877 · 11:43
St. Louis Globe-DemocratVol. 3 — No. 132
Late September 1877
Daring Detectives.
How the Western Train Robbers Were Hunted Down.
The Leader Identified in Spite of His Mask.
Tap to flip for the Lore →
No. 2 · The LoreThe Archive
Under the lone tree
Six outlaws counted out sixty thousand in gold under one cottonwood, and folks around here still like to believe not all of it left. People have walked these fields with detectors. People still do.
← Tap for the Record
Two ways to tell it
Every story has a record. And then it has the lore.
The Record · SylvesterWhat the documents say. Inquests, ledgers, county papers, dated and sourced. Sylvester reads all of it, including the boring pages, because that is where the story was hiding the whole time.
The Lore · MortimerWhat the locals passed down. The version told after the second cup of coffee, by folks who were not there but whose grandmother was. Mortimer tells it the way it was told to him, and he would point out the record had to start somewhere.
Your hosts
The Boys
Sylvester
The Mets cap · Reads the Record.
Keeps the receipts. Has read every inquest in three states and will tell you the page number. If it is written down, he has found it; if it is not, he wants to know why. The one who already has a plan before Mort finishes the sentence.
Mortimer
The fedora · Tells the Lore.
Knows a fellow whose uncle saw it. Delivers the wildest line in the room like he is reading a weather report. Loves a beautiful number, a shiny object, and a fun fact he is confident about and occasionally right about. Has never once let a story end where the paperwork did.
Support the show
Keep the Bandits digging
This is gold… Bandit gold.
Every story costs a few late nights and a lot of microfilm. If it was worth your time, it's worth a coffee.
What this site can do
Everything on this page is for sale. Except the raccoons.
Whitestone Design built this site, lantern and all. If you want one that flips, spins, follows and lingers like this one, that is a conversation the Boys are happy to have on your behalf.
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