Gentleman bandit the true story of Black Bart, the old West's most infamous stagecoach robber
(2023)

Nonfiction

Large Type

Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/BIOGRAPHY/BLACK BART

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Large Type LARGE TYPE/BIOGRAPHY/BLACK BART Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023
©2023
EDITION
Large print edition
DESCRIPTION

561 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9798885787444, 888578744D :, 9798885787444
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

You fine-haired sons of bitches -- The gold hunter -- The rifleman -- The charge of the light brigade -- Wounds of war -- I have had a rough life of it -- The poet highwayman -- Wells Fargo detective -- The gentleman bandit -- The chances I have to take -- Buckshot for Black Bart -- Throw down the box -- Fiasco at Funk Hill -- Black Bart throws up the sponge -- That telltale handkerchief -- A war of words -- San Quentin sojourn -- I have abandoned crime of every kind -- Black Bart rides again -- Myth and mystery

"Black Bart is regarded 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 with mild, polite commands. Such behavior earned him the title of a true "gentleman bandit," and his ultimate fate remains one of the greatest mysteries of the Old West. Now John Boessenecker sheds new light on Black Bart, bringing to life the story of the mysterious stage robber who doubled as a rich, genteel socialite in the golden era of the Wild West"--