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Black Bart - College Essays

Black Bart

On August 3 of 1877, a stage was making its way over the low hills between Point Arenas and Duncan’s Mills on the Russian River when a lone figure suddenly appeared in the middle of the road. Wearing a duster and a mask made from a flour sack, the bandit pointed a double- barreled shotgun at the driver and said, " Throw down the box!"
"I’ve labored long and hard for bread,
For honor and for riches,

But on my corns too long you’ve tred

You fine-haired sons of bitches."

When the posse arrived later, all they found was a waybill with the above verse painstakingly written on its back, each line in a different hand.

Almost a year later, on July 25 of 1878, ...

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can’t be worse;

And if there’s money in that box

‘Tis munny in my purse!"

Once again the lines were written in varying hands and the work signed "Black Bart, the PO8." In order to make the highways safe once again, Governor William Irwin posted a $300 reward for the capture of the bandit, to which Wells Fargo & Co. added another $300. Another $20 contributed by the postal authorities. The reward went unclaimed for five years, during which Black Bart seemingly robbed at will. Often laying low for several months, Bart would suddenly go on a spree and rob three or four stages in as many weeks, and then vanish without a trace. Black Bart’s talent for covering great distances on foot in impossibly short times was no doubt a great asset in his life as a highwayman.

In another, and it turned out to be his last, stage robbery McConnell (the stage driver) turned his head to find the muzzle of a double-barreled shotgun looking at him. You see, ...

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Added: 7/5/2006 08:50:30 AM
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