02393cam a2200469 4500 546479028 TxAuBib 20180827120000.0 171103t20182017||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2017051043 9781432848705 hardcover ; large print 1432848704 hardcover ; large print (OCoLC)1010619587 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF ORX OCL LW1 ZGY TXMAL IUK T3L T7R TxAuBib Estleman, Loren D. The ballad of Black Bart [large print] / by Loren D. Estleman. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2018. ©2017. 297 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print Western series Thorndike press large print westerns Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted. Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San Francisco's entertainments in the company of socialites drawn to his quiet, temperate good nature and upper-class tastes.Meanwhile, James B. Hume, Wells Fargo's legendary chief of detectives, made Bart's apprehension a matter of personal as well as professional interest. 20180827. Black Bart 1829- Fiction. Black Bart 1829- Hume, James B 1827-1904 Fiction. Hume, James B 1827-1904. Outlaws Fiction. Outlaws. Outlaws. Juvenile fiction. Stagecoach robberies Fiction. Stagecoach robberies. Large type books. Fiction. Western fiction. Historical fiction. Thorndike Press large print Western series. Thorndike press large print westerns. TXGAI