THE LEGEND OF BLACK BART- THE POET BANDIT OF CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH DAYS

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Between the years of 1875 and 1883, stagecoaches working along the routes that connected the mining towns in California's gold rush country on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains were used to holdups. A lot of robbers were shot or later caught and sent to prison-but there was one bandit the Wells Fargo agents couldn't catch- and that was Black Bart. Over a period of 8 years he successfully held up 28 stages. At two of these holdups he left a poem in the empty strongbox and signed it Black Bart- PO8. His MO was to appear alone from behind the bushes or a large rock with a shotgun at a point in the trail when the stage had to slow down, and demand that the strongbox be thrown down to him. He wore a flour sack over his head so no one could identify him, and he always escaped on foot in rough country. Curiously, although there were many stage companies working the area, he only held up Wells Fargo stages- as if he had some kind of a grudge to settle- and as it turns out he did. Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below!ANDROID USERS- 1001 Tales of Escape & Suspense at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/....2HQYk53AJHTOgBTLBzyP Stories From The Old West at Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/....0c2fc0cGwJBcPfyC8NWN Radio Crime Solvers at Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/....0UAUS12lnS2063PWK9CZ Best of Jack London at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/....2HzkpdKeWJgUU9rbx3Nq Radio Days at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/....5jyc4nVoe00xoOxrhyAa Classic Short Stories & Tales at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/....6rzDb5uFdOhfw5X6P5lk Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/....6rO7HELtRcGfV48UeP8a Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/....4dIgYvBwZVTN5ewF0JPa Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/....5P4hV28LgpG89dRNMfSD Stories for the Road on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/....6FhlsxYFTGNPiSMYxM9O 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/....5sUUFDVTatnGt7FiNQvS History's Best Storytellers: (INTERVIEWS) on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/....3QyZ1u4f9OLb9O32KX6G USERSNew! 1001 Tales of Escape and Suspense at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/....podcast/1001-tales-o

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