Life of Black Bart, Stagecoach Robber and Poet | Charles Boles

[@ThisisBarris]

I'm sorry but why is it that those weird, extravagant but awesome characters are only found in the past? Another great video man! Love these shorts. And love that you dress period appropriate.

[@HoH]

Art becomes way more valuable after an artist dies. I think that has something to do with it, in 50 years people that are alive today will be regarded in a different light. Ah you noticed! Thanks! Thought it would be fun to switch it up.

[@ThisisBarris]

@@HoH True. I also think that we tend to romanticize so the present isn't as "smooth" as the past. And yes, of course I realized! I appreciate the effort you put in your setting with the background, clothes and all.

[@mikek536]

There is actually a little more detail to the story and some of the facts are not correct in his video. I'm happy to see that people care about these stories though and are able to be introduced to characters that were larger than life. And think about about this, unless he decided to brag about it in the few years he left, if he was never caught, most it's most likely the name would have never been known. Oh, and good detective work as they found his handkerchief with what many people had on their clothes back then, a marking from a laundry house. After a lot of just grunt work they found the correct laundry and they gave the detectives his information. His cover story to people was he was a miner and that was how he made his money and dressed well. Then they found out that his departures from SF to go mining were the same as the stagecoach robberies. Of to Folsom prison for him .

[@mikek536]

@@HoH So you asked for advice, just make sure you have the story accurate.

[@alicemonk7223]

Here in northern California heading north to Willits, Ca, we the first time have a large Boulder that is historically marked as a hiding spot for black Bart as he waited for the coaches to come by

[@gregledbetter5942]

I live up above black Bart Road on the mountain, everytime I come down to 101 I'm looking right at that rock imagining him hanging out there waiting for the next feeding

[@IpernickTheGreat]

We got a Armchair Historian 2.0 right here! I loved the video, I hope to see more of you soon :)

[@mikek536]

Just had a few facts wrong

[@stevedk5494]

I live on Black Bart Trail in between Potter and Redwood Valley just north of Ukiah in Mendocino County. We are in the mountains up here, would’ve been easy to hideout.

[@tomjustis7237]

Just a small addition. He wasn't known as the 'poet' just because of his verses. It was because in his normal humorous way, he not only signed the verses, he signed them "Black Bart the po-8". Something of a joke for an educated man.

[@mikek536]

He has several things wrong in the video, I posted above, I forgot to mention he only left two poems out of the 28

[@mikek536]

So I recently acquired 22 of his signatures for a lot of money as you can imagine. I own a historical card company and this would pertain to the Old West in process right now and for a long while. The card is much like a baseball card that contains a signature. So Boles card will feature the signature inlaid on the decorative front and some short basic info on him. The back has more detail and a picture of him. They got through PSA authentication service. At PSA they scrutinize the autograph under very expensive equipment. The cards get put into a hard plastic holder that is vacuum sealed and includes serial number and other identifying information and with that number you can go on their site and a picture of it will come up. So the whole process and expense is something that takes awhile and a commitment to detail because nobody has every done something as well as these with historical information so it can be shared with others. Not to mention, an Old West set is the very first in the industry no matter how you slice it. As to the story you have told and some inaccuracies. His early history is known. He immigrated from England at the age of two to New York. When he got older he followed the rest of the people out to CA to try a strike it big with his brothers. Not much luck left them to return home around 1852, but a short time later they returned to CA but this time both brothers died of illness. He stayed in CA and tried the prospecting game again. After a couple more years he tossed it and and returned home. At some point he married and fathered four children, settling in Decatur Illinois. Then 1860, the nation heated up and he was off to war. He enlisted in the Union Army with the 116th Illinois Regiment. He was promoted to the First Sergeant, was seriously wounded at the Battle of Vicksburg, was able to recover and continue fighting. So to backup the words that he was a good soldier it would appear that is more than just good. Most soldiers that were very good received a Brevet of on Grade/Rank higher near the end or after the war. Boles was Breveted twice to a commissioned officer of 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieutenant on 07JUNE1865. This is where the signatures I acquired came from. The only signatures I have ever seen are from his war service and those I can count on one hand. Something seemed to have changed in him after the war. He headed out West again and left his family. This time not writing as much. He was in the Montana and Idaho (where I live) area. This is why he started to rob stagecoaches. Not from a prank and they were strictly Wells Fargo stagecoaches. In a letter that survived and is possibly in a museum or a private collection, he wrote to his wife that in Idaho he was hassled, the type and depth of what was done I can't find or he did not say in the letter, however he vowed revenge in the letter. That would be the last his wife would hear from him, at least that she said. He would work his way down to the area of Norther California, Nevada, and Oregon. Then he enacted his revenge for eight years. His last robbery happened a different way than you told it. I'm not sure where you got the information but there was a passenger. It was the Ferry owner's Son, 19 year old Jimmy Rolleri, who the driver, Reason McConnell, picked either as a ride to a good hunting ground or he was going somewhere else but had his rifle with him. There was a part of the road that went way around the valley in a horse shoe shape. Jimmy jumped out to to hunt down it lower area, and again there are two stories, he either was going to meet the McConnell on the other side, or he was staying around there and McConnell comes to find him. Either way, once he rounded the back of the horse shoe, he was met by Boles when he stepped out into the road. Detaches the horses and sends McConnell down the road until he could not see him anymore and Boles goes for the strong box in the back. Bad news, now they started bolting them down. So it takes he a lot long to get the box off then usual but he does and just as he moves towards the thicket, shots ring out at him, McConnell had used the kid's gun but appeared to miss, then Jimmy said give it to me, and it appears he hits him. Both of them of course would later say they were the who shot him. However, it was only in the hand. I think he may have slipped and hurt himself again but he had everything and gets to his hiding place, he loses his handkerchief and a couple other things, well the laundry label was on the handkerchief so that is how they got him. The story is once he got out of Folsom prison Wells Fargo agents were following him everywhere, so on of the days he quickly ducked into the hotel and back out and was gone. He was said to be in Pennsylvania, Marysville CA, and many other places. One of the agent said he was living in Japan. Again, nobody knows. Vanished

[@UnionBlue-h8e]

“The ancient saying may be fulfilled, he granted their request but he put leanness onto their souls. Who that reviews the violent and fraudulent means employed to revolutionize and conquer California, can look with honest complacency on the gold coin stamped with that states appellation? Who that understands what makes a state or what constitutes the true grandeur of nations, must lament with an unusual bitterness and sorrow, that breaking away of the high promise. What has been the fate of all nations who abounded in the precious metals, read the tales of California life thus far developed, then let the true lover of his country, and friend of free institutions determine whether there was a retribution for the crime and folly of such a war, could devise anyone that underneath a fascinating disguise, Carrie’s hidden with it, a Pandora’s box of greater evils, than the acquisition of the gold fields of the Sacramento.” -From the book “The War with Mexico reviewed” by Abiel Livermore

[@Bill-l7g]

He robbed at least 4 stages in Mendocino in Northern California - at the top of the Willits grade and in Covelo valley - there area is still very much like the old Wild West

[@nodrip1]

Have you looked into thr Bisbee deportation of 1917? (I think it was '17......)

[@HoH]

Never heard of it, but I’ll get to reading! I have several more Wild West videos in store in the next couple of weeks!

[@02C4]

ok i just found this video but I had to coment on this but this this guy is actualy my ancestor i found it out like 2 years ago from an ancestory dna test my elder sister took for cristmas i randomly found this video and wow it is strange sorry for the bad grammer but omg this is crazy!!!

[@caleb_brawlstars8272]

I’m related to this guy

[@CaseyBoles-bc2yk]

That's my last name 😮

[@TheEggeater1111]

Have you considered doing a video on Jon Joel Glanton?

[@skattwins3028]

hes my great great great uncle

[@SilverGamingSGC]

im related to him to, which means we are distantly related, interesting.

[@caleb_brawlstars8272]

I’m related to him to

[@caleb_brawlstars8272]

Are your guys last name boles

[@ingemannhansvik2409]

i living in norway and we most her på you

[@RyelynCaster]

You’ve upload at least once a week for five months, and make videos about a certain topic, and you can edit? Why on earth don’t you have more subs?

[@HoH]

The past five months have been very enjoyable. I’ve immersed myself in topics that I would probably have glanced over before, have read more books than ever (and that says something), and I’ve had the opportunity to tell these extremely interesting stories. People that find these topics interesting will probably stumble upon my channel as time passes. Patience is key ;) thanks for the nice comment!

[@davidberrueco2]

well he got my subscription today :D

[@smokeaveli1094]

Ferguson and bigs

[@frederickthegreatpodcast382]

What’s your opinion of Tik’s theory that the Nazis were socialist?

[@dftmmwgitd]

Conservative propaganda

[@mikek536]

It only stands for National Socialist German Workers Party. Long before that, more than 20 years earlier the SA or Brown shirts were also socialists. It was more of a big cluster you know what. Because Hitler was not onboard socialism. He was a capitalist. There was no way he was going to be able to create what he did by socialism. The German Empire quickly changed from socialist fighting capitalism and the German War Machine not only was able to invent and build most of the world's fiercest weapons (more recent information has come to light that the Germans were closer to a Nuke than we thought even) sluggishly trudging through actual full blown socialism. However, they did have many things that mirrored socialism to a team, like Strength Through Joy, look it up, it is as socialist as you can get by assigning vacations to a few places like on a cruise ship or ships run and large hotels on the Baltic run by the government and they were very structured and people were watched. There is a lot more to read but learn on your own not by what some random person says just because of a political idea forces him to think one way. It is a uninformed and reckless comment.

[@mikek536]

@@dftmmwgitd You find political nut jobs everywhere. It's too bad. You need some serious history lessons. Try NAZI meaning National Socialist German Workers Party. Nazi Germany was basically a hybrid of both. Hitler was not a fan of socialism but did see some of the benefits. Capitalism was his focus and he wanted to fund the failed Thousand-year Reich. But neither of those words extends past what they are intended to be and that is a form of operating a government. Nationalism can simply just having pride and focusing on your own government first. Which it really is and all it is. If governments add on qualifiers then the bastardize the concept. The same goes for socialism. Which is a more sharing society, with pitfalls too. Since it is heading in the direction of communism you can watch the failures of those too. But yes they were socialists, and it is in there name. Hitler's "Night of the long-knives" helped eliminate some of the socialist road blocks and anyone else he saw as a problem. There were still plenty of socialist there after but not the ones who would put up too much of a fight.

[@caleb_brawlstars8272]

I’m related to this guy