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HISTORY IN PLAIN SIGHT IBD

ARCHWAY PUBLISHING
06 / 2017
9781480844247
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Sinopsis

Who really was Black Bart? While he was a notorious nineteenth-century bandit known for robbing stagecoaches in gold rush California and Oregon, Black Bart&rsquo,s true identity is still cloaked in mystery. After being jailed in 1883 as Charles Edward Boles, his picture appeared in all the papers&mdash,yet hundreds of miners and old neighbors and friends would keep a secret: that the man in the papers was actually Alvy Boles.In History in Plain Sight: Joaquin Miller, Ambrose Bierce, and the Real Black Bart, author and historian Margaret Guilford-Kardell investigates the true identity of the man known as Black Bart, and she draws from Harry L. Wells&rsquo,s History of Siskiyou County, California (1881) and other historical documents, newspaper articles, and letters to explore the fascinating connection between the real Black Bart and poet-novelist Joaquin Miller&mdash,two of the most colorful but misunderstood figures from California&rsquo,s gold rush days.&ldquo,Call me what you will,&rdquo, said a defiant Black Bart upon his arrest. Yet while he was called C. E. Boles or Charles Bolton by the authorities, a story of reputation, competing journalism, and family will show how the real Black Bart was none other than Alvy Boles.