Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber

From New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian John Boessenecker, an “entertaining, well-researched foray” (Kirkus Reviews) into the decades of Black Bart, the Wild West’s mysterious gentleman bandit.

Black Bart, widely regarded today as the best-behaved stage robber of the Old West, held up at least twenty-nine stagecoaches in California and Oregon with mild, polite commands, never robbing a passenger.

His real name was Charles E. Boles, and his true calling as America’...