Unmasking Black Bart: The Gentleman Bandit's Untold Story. America’s greatest stage robber.
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- Unmasking Black Bart: The Gentleman Bandit's Untold Story. America’s greatest stage robber.
Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine stagecoaches in California and Oregon with mild, polite commands, stealing from Wells Fargo and the US mail but never robbing a passenger. Such behavior earned him the title of a true “gentleman bandit.”
His real name was Charles E. Boles, and in the public eye, Charles lived quietly as a boulevardier in San Francisco, the wealthiest and most exciting city in the American West. Boles was an educated man who traveled among respectable crowds. Because he did not drink, fight or consort with prostitutes, his true calling as America’s greatest stage robber was never suspected until his final capture in 1883. Sheriffs searched and struggled for years to find him, and newspaper editors had a field day reporting his exploits. Legends and rumors trailed his name until his mysterious death, and his ultimate fate remains one of the greatest mysteries of the Old West.
Now historian John Boessenecker sheds new light on Black Bart’s beginnings, reputation and exploits, bringing to life the glittering story of the mysterious stage robber who doubled as a rich, genteel socialite in the golden era of the Wild West.
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Great interview and book!
Love the added photos and such.
Thanks, really good interview! Going to have to get the book! 🤠
Just bought your audiobook, excited to listen to it, thank you
I enjoyed this interview Mr Boessenecker. I have read several of your researched books. Ride the Devils herd, Wildcat, Shotgun and
Stagecoaches I own these books. I have enjoyed reading them thanks to David Grasse’.
Well, after the most excellent Wildcat book I am buying this one as fast as I can.
Black Bart was a local bandit , holding up at least 4 stages in the surrounding area of Mendocino County , Ca .
It’s still a rather lawless area - even more so in his day I suppose
Charles Bowles AKA Black Bart ( T!he Gentleman Bandit)
Is buried in Marysville, California .
That is a recent myth, invented by a couple of modern writers. I explain in the book why that is impossible. The man buried in that Marysville grave had no connection with Black Bart.