Black Bart
Polite Wells Fargo robber
Black Bart was the stagecoach robber Charles Boles, who held up Wells Fargo coaches in California during the 1870s and 1880s.
Known for his politeness and for leaving poems at crime scenes, he became a legendary figure of the Old West.
The name has since been applied to various other outlaws and fictional characters.
- outlawFugitive from justice
- stagecoachHorse-drawn route vehicle
- Wells FargoMajor American bank
- robberyTheft through intimidation
- banditArmed roadside thief
highwayman · road agent · California · gold · shotgun · mask · poet · verse · holdup · reward · desperado · loot · horses · dusty · wanted · wanted poster · trail · pistol
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Piratespirate, buccaneer, corsair, corsairs, privateers
- seafarerssailor, seaman, mariner, able seaman, merchant seaman
lawfulness/criminality
Black BartWyatt Earp
Old West lawman
lawman · sheriff · Wild Bill Hickok · Texas Ranger · deputy
black, Bart, blacks, blacked, blacking, blacken, blackens, blackened, blackening