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Leverett House sophomores held an exclusive get-together dinner in the House dining hall last night. The 28-man House staff and the House committee were honored guests. Leigh Hoadley, Master of the House, and Bart J. Bok, associate director of the College Observatory, spoke on the history and advantages of Leverett...
Bread & Poems. Black Bart was not the first man to snatch a Wells Fargo treasure box,* but he was far & away the most dashing. Wearing a flour sack with cutout eyeholes over his head and a long linen duster, he pulled his first job one sun-baked day in July by stepping out from behind a rock on a Calaveras County road and waving a sawed-off shotgun at Billy Hodges' stagecoach. "If they dare to shoot, give them a solid volley, boys," Black Bart shouted toward the rocks alongside the road. Driver Hodges, able to see half...
Working alone and on foot, Black Bart held up 28 stagecoaches in eight years. While Californians built legends around his name, Wells Fargo detectives scoured the mountainsides for clues. They found little except handwritten poems which Bart often left in the strongboxes he had plundered. One stanza...
Nuggets & Dust. Finally Black Bart slipped up. Hurrying away from a stage robbery near Sonora in 1883, he dropped a handkerchief bearing the mark of a San Francisco laundry. That was all his pursuers needed to track him down. He turned out to be a 55-year-old man who lived in quiet "retirement" and often ate his lunch at a Kearney Street bakery. His name: Charley Bolton...
Author Hungerford's history of Wells Fargo contains only a few nuggets like the story of Black Bart. It concerns itself chiefly with lavishing praise on Wells Fargo executives and listing company assets and dividends through the years. Most readers had better look elsewhere for the sound & fury of early California days ; but ardent collectors of Americana will want to sift its dry-as-dust style for new facts about the old West...