California Travel Tips
Black Bart, Polite and Poetic California Outlaw
Published on: July 11, 2013
On July 26, 1875 in Calaveras County, the Sonora to Milton stage was robbed by a man wearing a flour sack over his head with two holes cut out for the eyes. Underneath that flour sack was a man with graying brown hair, missing two of his front teeth, deep-set piercing blue eyes under heavy eyebrows. ‘Slender hands and intellectual in conversation, well-flavored with polite jokes.’ That’s how 14 year-old Donna McCreary described the man who walked to the McCreary farm and paid for dinner. They called him Black Bart, though he went by the name Charles Bowles. He became known for never shooting anyone during a stagecoach robbery and on occasion, leaving a written poem at the scene of the crime. Read more…>
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