Daily Quiz for July 27, 2009

Charles Bolles (1829??) adopted the name Black Bart from a dime novel character. After serving in the 116th Illinois Regiment during the Civil War, he tried farming and prospecting until a run-in with Wells, Fargo and Co. employees led him to rob stagecoaches. He was polite to his victims, used no abusive language, and left a poem at the scene of each robbery. He was finally tracked down due to a laundry mark on a handkerchief left behind by "Black Bart," served four years in San Quentin and was last seen in San Francisco in 1888.