Charles Earl Bowles a/k/a Black Bart

By Jack Brummet, Old West Ed.

Black Bart a/k/a Charles Earl Bowles (b.1829; d.after 1888), was an Old West outlaw best known for the poetic messages he left after two of his robberies. He was also sometimes known as Black Bart the Poet.  He was "a gentleman bandit," and the most notorious stagecoach robber to work the west coast during the 1870s and 80s.  For an outlaw, he lived to a fairly ripe age.  That's a pretty impressive tickler. 

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