Why Isn't Black Bart More Famous?

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  • @robatkin7580
    @robatkin7580 Рік тому +25

    I am an Englishman and when I was a child in the 1970s I watched all the old Western Movies with my Grand Father and have since become fascinated by the Old Wild west history. I must say that I find your passion, easy going delivery and knowledge on the subject the most enjoyable on social media and I only wish my Grand Dad was here to watch along with me now. Thank You Sir and I have subscribed to Your channel.

    • @bobbell7213
      @bobbell7213 Рік тому +1

      Rob, thanks for those kind words. I too wish your Grand Dad was here so we could swap lies. Ha.

  • @jacquelinemarie1078
    @jacquelinemarie1078 Рік тому +36

    Black Bart was my favorite outlaw. He only robbed Wells Fargo, because they did him wrong and he vowed to get even. I think he did. He was all over, and even robbed a stage near my hometown in California. He really was a nice man, apparently.

  • @winslowredcross2835
    @winslowredcross2835 Рік тому +31

    I didn't know there were three more stagecoach robberies after he got out of prison. Another great story Bob. Thank you!!

  • @riverraisin1
    @riverraisin1 Рік тому +8

    After prison Black Bart went straight alright.
    Straight back to stage robbing!😂

  • @jackdickenson5313
    @jackdickenson5313 Рік тому +19

    Loved the video. But the story I heard is after Bart got out of prison the robbery's started up again and one of the head honchos at Wells Fargo called him in and offered Bart a " penchen" as he called it to leave their coaches alone. And because Bart was getting older he agreed and retired. Now that's the story I heard. Or at least the one I like best.

  • @CwL-1984
    @CwL-1984 Рік тому +5

    Outstanding 👍👍.
    There's many a good law man and outlaw forgotten and over looked by popular culture.

  • @DC8091
    @DC8091 Рік тому +7

    Remember the name from The Christmas Story. Ralphie defeated Black Bart in the snow with his trusty Red Ryder beebee gun “Old Blue” by his side!

  • @johnsonandsons4
    @johnsonandsons4 Рік тому +8

    As a history buff I love these YT videos Mr. Bell!!

  • @AB-ye7bw
    @AB-ye7bw Рік тому +5

    Thank you for the fascinating story! Well told.

  • @Desolate1
    @Desolate1 Рік тому +8

    Dear God not the derby😭
    You’re right Bob, this guy should be WAY more famous.

    • @j3i2i2yl7
      @j3i2i2yl7 Рік тому +1

      It is kind of funny that people don't generally think of California when they talk about the old West, especially when so many westerns were filmed in Ca. It is also not thought of as a farm state, even though it has the highest agricultural production of any of the US states.

    • @jacquelinemarie1078
      @jacquelinemarie1078 Рік тому

      @@j3i2i2yl7 You are so correct. thanks for that.

  • @jonathanhansen3709
    @jonathanhansen3709 Рік тому +7

    About 30 years ago, I was at Knott’s Berry Farm, in Buena Park, California. In front of the Jersey Lilly (another story in it’s self) they had on display a very old Stage Coach , that had a plaque that stated the stage had been robbed by ‘Black Bart’ 100 years before. I don’t know if it’s still on display, but it was very interesting to me, as I knew about Black Bart. Wish I had a camera! This about 1989, before cell phone cameras.

    • @pinupdoll97
      @pinupdoll97 Рік тому

      Ah, knotty Berry Farm. Great childhood memories for me.

  • @markwolf8393
    @markwolf8393 Рік тому +8

    Death Valley Days has a full episode on Black Bart.

    • @williamhurt8512
      @williamhurt8512 Рік тому

      23 hours later, i just made that same statement myself, were showing our age mark....................

  • @ExKUKicker
    @ExKUKicker Рік тому +8

    Great story on Black Bart, Bob! Being from/living in Wichita, Kansas...I sure wish that you would do a story on Rowdy Joe Lowe. He maintained a bar/brothel in Newton, Kansas (up the rode about 25 miles), but frequently "visited" Wichita to the Delano District where, he would start trouble and need to escape by the backdoor of a saloon. It is suggested that he, and Wyatt Earp crossed paths while Earp was an Assistant Marshal here?

  • @HatCreekMan57
    @HatCreekMan57 Рік тому +2

    I enjoyed this very much. Thanks!

  • @JadaFinistair
    @JadaFinistair Рік тому +4

    I grew up in the city of Concord Calif. and when I was young we celebrated Black Bart Days. We had a big parade and carnival. I'm not sure of the accuracy of this, but I remember being told that in our city he helped build the first school. So to us he was a local hero.

  • @johndeavenport7593
    @johndeavenport7593 Рік тому +1

    That was a great story about Black Bart, Thank you!! Anytime I hear about him my ears perk up, like you said not much is written about him, what a interesting crook he was, all the stages he held up & never shot anybody. Thanks Again!!

  • @gus473
    @gus473 Рік тому +3

    😅 When I was a kid, I bought a reproduction wanted poster for "Black Bart" that included that "doggerel!" Must have read those lines hundreds of times! Thanks, Bob! 🤠

  • @ericcrawford3453
    @ericcrawford3453 Рік тому +3

    Another good one. Always thought B.B. was one of the most clever of all the legendary characters of the old west.

  • @treywest268
    @treywest268 Рік тому +1

    Just found your channel tonight. I love it and I am subscribing too!
    I love finding out info about the Old West.
    I am curious if you ever listen to the music of Pop Wagner and Bob Bovee?
    They sing the songs of the Old Western Cowboys and prit ne'r got it down right perfect!

  • @THEScottCampbell
    @THEScottCampbell Рік тому +2

    There were a LOT of "Black Barts" including pirate Bartholomew Roberts. Charles Boles' story was told on "Death Valley Days" but it's good to hear it here.

  • @pinupdoll97
    @pinupdoll97 Рік тому +1

    Awe I loved this! I was surprised to hear the name of Lotta Crabtree, who was one of the top paid entertainers of the west. My great great grandpa was John Springer who was the warden at Idaho state penitentiary and sold her a racehorse that was winning left and right. He told her specifically not to ever whip this horse and be gentle. Her trainer whipped it and it never won another race. When she died, she left most of her money to scholarships for women and humane treatment of animals, something I sometimes think might have had some part to do with what happened to the horse because of some amazing letters she sent to my great great grandfather after the horse lost his “spirit”.

  • @stoneblue1795
    @stoneblue1795 Рік тому +2

    Well done, sir. Enjoyed that all quite a bit, you have a knack for this sort of thing!

  • @guydebacker1140
    @guydebacker1140 Рік тому +3

    Love these video’s, what an amazing storyteller, thank you mr. Bell

  • @bigblue6917
    @bigblue6917 Рік тому +4

    Well, you have to credit Bart for being clever enough to outsmart the law for so long.

  • @Busterkeatonrules
    @Busterkeatonrules Рік тому +1

    European here. I've known about Black Bart since childhood because he briefly appears in the Lucky Luke comic 'Stagecoach'. (Yeah, zero points for guessing what part he plays in the story.) The comic also featured a brief write-up about the real Black Bart - including a slightly censored version of that exact poem! Really cool to hear a more detailed version, though.

  • @originalrocksongs-timremington

    Very fascinating information about this stage robber! I enjoyed learning about Black Bart. Thanks for sharing this.

  • @bonsaibiker5378
    @bonsaibiker5378 Рік тому +1

    all your videos are so interesting , many thanks

  • @stevemccoy8138
    @stevemccoy8138 Рік тому +2

    Thanks Bob, I enjoyed it.

  • @bglrj
    @bglrj Рік тому +1

    I grew up in Oakland and learned about him in elementary school, at museums, and from my parents. We knew more about him than we did about Billy the kid.

  • @davidreimer97
    @davidreimer97 11 місяців тому

    I wrote a screenplay about Black Bart the PO8 with an effort to tell the true story of his life.. He was a 49er* and Union soldier. Awesome story to work on. I live in Jackson, Ca near the National Hotel, BART robbed a stagecoach 4 miles west in 1883 (robbery #28)
    Great video!

  • @stevet5238
    @stevet5238 Рік тому +1

    Very interesting story , I have read a book or two about him . Very good video , keep them coming .

  • @timculp4126
    @timculp4126 Рік тому +6

    My hometown is Redding and I'm very familiar with Black Bart. One line he wrote has always stuck in my head," but on my corns too long you've tred, you fine haired sons of bitches." Bart was definitely an original.

    • @jacquelinemarie1078
      @jacquelinemarie1078 Рік тому +1

      use to live in Redding. hotter than hell!!!

    • @timculp4126
      @timculp4126 Рік тому

      @@jacquelinemarie1078 Yes it is. A lot of 110+ days every summer.

  • @johnking6252
    @johnking6252 Рік тому +1

    A learning man. Thx for the info.

  • @Sawdust5764
    @Sawdust5764 Рік тому +4

    Here in Butte County " Bart" is far from forgotten, we have a monument and a street named after him. He is very much alive still and spoken of fondly

    • @jacquelinemarie1078
      @jacquelinemarie1078 Рік тому +1

      Butte county - - - I grew up in chico. We all like black bart in those parts.

  • @dr.froghopper6711
    @dr.froghopper6711 Рік тому +1

    I always enjoy these Señor Bob!

  • @jiujitsuforall8627
    @jiujitsuforall8627 Рік тому +3

    I was a former subscriber to True West magazine and have had a lifelong fascination with the old west. My favorite period is from the 1860's through about the 1880's. To me, anything after the late 1880's is too "settled". I sure love these videos!!

  • @carinabella3393
    @carinabella3393 Рік тому

    This is fantastic! Thank you. Subscribed 😀

  • @oletimer5853
    @oletimer5853 Рік тому +1

    Thank you !!!! Love your videos

  • @DannyWalker1949
    @DannyWalker1949 Рік тому +1

    The 0l' West the Best of the times there ever was in y book. Thank You for this amazing story Bob. I Enjoyed.

  • @richdiddens4059
    @richdiddens4059 Рік тому +6

    3 more possible ends to Black Bart. !- The Cemetery Commissioner in Marysville, Ca. claims he spent his last months working as a pharmacist there and is buried in the city cemetery. 2- There is a local legend he's buried in an unmarked grave in Knight's Ferry. 3- One of the Wells Fargo detective on his case claimed he knew for a fact that he'd moved to Japan. 2 more points: he never rode a horse because he was afraid of them and he was born in England.

  • @theblackbear211
    @theblackbear211 Рік тому +4

    Having spent a fair amount of time in the "Mother Lode" country, Black Bart was one of my favorites to read about when I was a kid (more than 50 years ago).
    Thanks for sharing this story.

  • @captsigsauer
    @captsigsauer Рік тому

    Great videos…keeping the old west tales alive…!!

  • @dutch9357
    @dutch9357 Рік тому +1

    I’ve always wondered about Black Bart since hearing his name in Michael Martin Murphy’s Rhymes of the Renegades. Great song. Great story. The more you know.

  • @MamaMimi_GFm3
    @MamaMimi_GFm3 Рік тому

    Black Bart is my relative. My Great Grandma was Hazel Boles who married Jesse Gatlin. I am still in NorCal. Thanks for this! I feel honored to be related.

    • @MamaMimi_GFm3
      @MamaMimi_GFm3 Рік тому

      No wonder my mom named our yellow canary Bartholomew.

  • @lemat8558
    @lemat8558 Рік тому +1

    Such a nice story. No killings, that's pretty spectacular. Your storytelling is great.

  • @daleparker4207
    @daleparker4207 Рік тому

    Very enjoyable video. Thank you and thank your wife.

  • @keithcheeseman567
    @keithcheeseman567 Рік тому

    Love your channel and videos. Could you please do a piece on ' Nat Love'

  • @THINKincessantly
    @THINKincessantly Рік тому +1

    Howdy from East Texas--The most interesting thing to me is he was born in 1829 in Norfolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, sounds to me like the last of what Ole Blighty would call highwaymen...I thought I had read where the highwaymen of the post English Civil War era 👉🏻1660 onward were all wrapped up by the time Charley was born

  • @r.e.tucker3223
    @r.e.tucker3223 Рік тому +1

    Well done.

  • @n1fffan
    @n1fffan Рік тому +11

    I grew up knowing the name Black Bart because we had a cat named Black Bart, and my father, being a historian that specializes in San Francisco history, always told me that he named him after the stagecoach robber.
    I personally am not that big on the subject of history, but when this video popped up in my recommended feed, because my Bart kitty was so important in my life, and that fact stuck with me, I just had to hear you out.

    • @glenacebrown9995
      @glenacebrown9995 Рік тому +3

      This made me smile, because I named the black kitten I adopted Nov. 2022 "Black Bart." He is quite the rogue, too.

  • @cletola9675
    @cletola9675 Рік тому +1

    I loved the poem.....Blacl Bart was so good at his trade..he never had to shoot anyone that were aware....and yes..iv herd of him..but not the details..thanks for the storys..

  • @__shifty
    @__shifty Рік тому +1

    i clicked this thinking it was gonna be about the original title of blazing saddles, but the video was still cool

  • @kylekyselka6499
    @kylekyselka6499 Рік тому +1

    I’m surprised the old Dale Robinson series “Tales of Wells Fargo” didn’t do an episode on him. That would fit their story line.

  • @David-sk9vv
    @David-sk9vv Рік тому

    Is there a physical True West Magazine, digital versions online or is it just for your UA-cam Channel? This is top stuff my friend; amazing knowledge and presentation!

  • @DarcySullivan
    @DarcySullivan Рік тому +1

    The anecdote just killed me! "Right as rain, Roy."

  • @RavenGent
    @RavenGent Рік тому +5

    I know Black Bart's story so well. He's California 's Jesse James.
    I hope you can do a life and times of Black Bart book. Like you did for Wyatt And Doc.
    Besides it's still a mystery of what happened to him after he was released from San Quentin.

    • @jacquelinemarie1078
      @jacquelinemarie1078 Рік тому

      Black bart didn't kill people because they were not rebels. He didn't kill anyone. Jesse James killed indiscriminately. Black bart was actually a gentle man.

    • @RavenGent
      @RavenGent Рік тому

      @@jacquelinemarie1078 that's true. BUT what I mean by calling him California's Jesse James was because he rob Wells Fargo stagecoaches and the money he stole went to himself. Not the poor. Like Jesse James who along with his brother Frank in their robberies, the money they stole went to themselves and their cousins family, not one cent went to the poor.
      And to add, like Jesse James who left press release to John Newman Edwards on his robberies, Black Bart also wanted to have publicity by taunting Wells Fargo's detective James Hume by doing a lot of the Black Bart poetry.

  • @jeffbosworth8116
    @jeffbosworth8116 Рік тому +3

    I suspect his army life was a big part of it. He was with Sherman during his march to the sea, so was used to walking long distances. I live in Gold Country so many of his robberies weren't too far from here - it's pretty rough country. It would be easy to get away from a horse. Perhaps he never shot anyone because the war had soured him on killing.

  • @brandon779
    @brandon779 Рік тому +1

    I seen a short documentary about Black Bart somewhere.

  • @angrytrucker420
    @angrytrucker420 Рік тому

    I just found your channel. Love it. I've always thought I was born 150 yrs too late. Anyway, what really amazes me is that someone could retire comfortably on $5000. Well,let's get back to history.

  • @exvictorian3605
    @exvictorian3605 Рік тому +1

    Thank you

  • @MC-wg3fm
    @MC-wg3fm Рік тому +1

    For some reason, personally, the most astonishing nugget in the narrative at 9:23. The sci-fi newspaper story, The Case of Summerfield describes how the guy takes over the world after he discovers how to set water on fire 💀
    “How did this even get printed” must have been the thought of some folks back then.
    Yet 75 years after the newspaper published that crazy sci-fi story from 1871, the hydrogen bomb is used in world war 💀😳😳
    The sci-fi track record on predicting the future is really impressive.

  • @LongdistanceRider22
    @LongdistanceRider22 Рік тому +1

    There is a Black Bart steakhouse and RV park in Flagstaff Arizona….

  • @paulbaker5920
    @paulbaker5920 Рік тому +2

    Not enough violence to interest Hollywood.

  • @gator83261
    @gator83261 Рік тому +1

    Good video.

  • @williamemerson1799
    @williamemerson1799 Рік тому +1

    The Grey Fox, about Bill Miner is a pretty good flick, starring Richard Farnsworth.

  • @williamhurt8512
    @williamhurt8512 Рік тому +1

    around 13:23, if i remember right, i think "death valley days" did a bio episode on black bart........................

  • @turbobeep
    @turbobeep Рік тому +1

    Great story!

  • @artisaprimus6306
    @artisaprimus6306 Рік тому +1

    Black Bart can be used as a tool for language skills. Black Bart belched a bucket of bubbling barf.

  • @williamhurt8512
    @williamhurt8512 Рік тому +2

    i'm back, just watched the death valley days- black bart episode, almost a comedy, it sure takes dramatic and poetic license while sticking somewhere near the truth..............a thoussand grins...................................

  • @plymouthduster225
    @plymouthduster225 Рік тому +1

    Have you ever done a video on Jesse Evans? Curious to know your opinion on what you think happened to him.

  • @treywest268
    @treywest268 Рік тому +1

    Great Cowboy poetry!!!

  • @kenjackson5491
    @kenjackson5491 Рік тому

    Just finished Bossenecker''s book. It was very well researched and entertaining. I am going to San Andreas CA to visit the Calaveras county museum in the next week to see the cell where Black Bart was held and the courtroom where he was sentenced to San Quentin prison

  • @johnbailey4128
    @johnbailey4128 Рік тому +3

    This is so awesome and funny, because Black Bart is a name that is always used in cartoons and such. If you want to check out a clever stage coach robber Dick Fellows is pretty cool. The guy couldn't ride a horse lol 😊😊😊😊❤

    • @caseyhansen4567
      @caseyhansen4567 Рік тому

      Yes I found a story about fellows robbing stagecoaches funny stories like to hear Bob's version

  • @martinedwards4522
    @martinedwards4522 Рік тому +3

    that is an amazing story sir!... done in by a laundry mark on his hat!.... that you could even dig up these details is awesome. he got 6 years for multiple armed robberies!...

  • @d.b.2812
    @d.b.2812 Рік тому +1

    I always wondered what happened to him after he got out of prison?

  • @jacobmarley4907
    @jacobmarley4907 Рік тому +1

    Bob, I agree with you that is a great storyline and that would make a really good movie. I also have to ask you, when you were doing the video there's a picture that looks like by a fireplace, a sketch of an old west person's head, and I have to ask you who that is? When I looked at it, it looks like me. So I am dying of curiosity of who that is. So if you look at these comments I would really like to know who is that in the picture. What are the odds?

    • @jacobmarley4907
      @jacobmarley4907 Рік тому

      P. S. The picture is over your right shoulder in the video.

  • @Gunny672
    @Gunny672 Рік тому

    I grew up on the Foresthill Devide Ca. Robers Roost across our canyon where Black Bart did a few holdups.

  •  Рік тому +1

    So interesting. There should be a movie for sure. And he WAS a good poet!

  • @nathanalmond8280
    @nathanalmond8280 Рік тому

    Thanks for sharing the video. Didn't realize he made the last three after being caught. I like to think he lived out his life and was comfortable.

  • @gubernatorial1723
    @gubernatorial1723 Рік тому +1

    He appears in the Lucky Luke comic, 'The Stagecoach'. Mild mannered teacher attacked by his feral students, who takes it out on stage coaches, from memory, as per his poem about being tired of being trod on. I'm sure you Americans weren't exposed to the Lucky Luke comics' brilliant European concept of the Wild West. Remain in my mind from my childhood as fresh as a daisy.

  • @michaelcollins237
    @michaelcollins237 Рік тому +1

    Sitting in the sun in Cave Creek This guy iBOB BOZE BELL was my reason for going to Arizona so many times Great story Too bad that they caught Vart

  • @andychase7693
    @andychase7693 Рік тому

    Cool story! For future reference the pronunciation of archetype is not "arch-type", it's "ark-i-type". Keep the stories comin'. The world needs good storytellers!

  • @glenacebrown9995
    @glenacebrown9995 Рік тому

    Thanks for posting this. I always liked the story of Black Bart the Po8. I think he's the only old west rogue worth remembering. Death Valley Days did one episode about him, but that's the only reference on film I'm familiar with.

  • @terrystephenson984
    @terrystephenson984 Рік тому +1

    There’s something wrong with your video upload, there’s audio/video glitching.

    • @TheBatugan77
      @TheBatugan77 Рік тому +1

      Mine is fine.
      You're having seizures, maybe?

  • @jamierobinson3349
    @jamierobinson3349 10 місяців тому

    I grew up in both Sonoma and Next door Mendocino counties where Black Bart actually called his home as well as several stagecoach robberies. Outside of Ukiah California (Mendocino county) is a rock called Black Rock named after him because he hid behind it waiting for passing stagecoaches. 🎩♠♠♠

  • @williambolton4698
    @williambolton4698 Рік тому +1

    Black Bart was born in Norfolk, England. I was intrigued to see that one of his aliases was Charlie Bolton. I'd love to know who he adopted that surname from!

  • @georgesouthwick7000
    @georgesouthwick7000 Рік тому +1

    Probably one reason he isn’t more famous is because he never killed anyone or, for that matter he never even caused anyone physical harm.

  • @dougmoore498
    @dougmoore498 Рік тому

    awesome!!

  • @Bill-l7g
    @Bill-l7g 11 місяців тому

    Black Bart was a local bandit - there’s the “ Black Bart rock” at the crest of the Willits Grade - supposedly he frequently held up stages by hiding behind that rock . There’s also the Black Bart bar - originally from the Palace Hotel in Ukiah , now relocated a couple of block away in the Ukiah Brewery restaurant .
    He staged at least 4 stage robberies in the area
    Ukiah is about 120 miles North of San Francisco

  • @DK-gy7ll
    @DK-gy7ll Рік тому +1

    It's hard to make a movie about Black Bart because there wouldn't be any gunfights or gorgeous women in it.

  • @jeroenwubbels7824
    @jeroenwubbels7824 Рік тому +1

    I know him, he was in Lucky Luke ( comics)

  • @daveharris7734
    @daveharris7734 Рік тому +1

    My dealings with criminal element is that they do return to the scene of the crime. Counting Coup.

    • @seebybermo9167
      @seebybermo9167 Рік тому

      Not necessarily, something they are psychologically compelled to do, if that sounds right. I think.

  • @maryellenshock
    @maryellenshock Рік тому

    Maiden name is Bolton, and I heard of him and when I heard of his Bolton "name" I was hooked
    Couldn't find anything about him after his time in prison.

  • @stephenhassan3184
    @stephenhassan3184 Рік тому +1

    I thoroughly recomend the film The Grey Fox. Based on the life of train robber, Bill Miner. Miner was from a different time and place than Bart and didn't strictly work solo. But Black Bart and Bill Miner were cut from the same cloth in terms of their intelligence, planning, skills and abilities, and overall demeanor. The a commitment to maintain a certain standard of decency while stealing. A lot of similarities in thier path thier lives followed too. Great writing, locations and cast, with Richard Farnsworth in the lead role. the Grey Fox was up on UA-cam last time I checked.

  • @Steve-qt9ce
    @Steve-qt9ce Рік тому

    Amazing❗remember Black Bart in Blazing Saddles😁

  • @victorioguedea9504
    @victorioguedea9504 Рік тому

    Bob what other magazine was published as far back as the early 1900’s that dealt with the old west

  • @MicahBell_1860
    @MicahBell_1860 Рік тому +1

    Mel Brooks made Black Bart famous in the documentary Blazing Saddles!!

  • @andywindes4968
    @andywindes4968 27 днів тому

    I think you left a few words out of the poem. I believe it goes:
    I've labored long and hard for bread,
    For honor, and for riches,
    But on my corns too long you've tread,
    You fine-haired sons of bitches.
    Sentiments I've felt many times in my life!

  • @brianelkins8604
    @brianelkins8604 Рік тому +1

    I would say the gentleman bandit was pretty famous.

  • @chrismcclary108
    @chrismcclary108 Рік тому +2

    Ha! I live on Black Bart. Love this character…. Supposedly use to rob coaches here in Tahoe just down the street from me