Charles Earl Bowles (b.1829; d.after 1888), better known as Black Bart, is an English-born American Old West outlaw noted for his poetic messages left after two of his robberies.
Also known as Charles Bolton, C.E.
Bolton and Black Bart the Po8, he is a gentleman bandit, and one of the most notorious stagecoach robbers to operate in and around Northern California and southern Oregon during the 1870s and 1880s.
He has a great reputation for style and sophistication.
