The Ballad of Black Bart: A Novel

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Tor Publishing Group, Nov 14, 2017 - Fiction - 240 pages

The Ballad of Black Bart: a riveting western novel from Spur Award-Winning Author Loren D. Estleman.

"Loren Estleman is my hero."—Harlan Coben


Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California’s Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted.

Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San Francisco’s entertainments in the company of socialites drawn to his quiet, temperate good nature and upper-class tastes.

Meanwhile, James B. Hume, Wells Fargo’s legendary chief of detectives, made Bart’s apprehension a matter of personal as well as professional interest.

The Ballad of Black Bart is a duel of wits involving two adversaries of surpassing cleverness, set against the vivid backdrop of the Old West.

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Contents

Section 1
11
Section 2
19
Section 3
27
Section 4
35
Section 5
43
Section 6
53
Section 7
63
Section 8
71
Section 15
129
Section 16
139
Section 17
151
Section 18
161
Section 19
169
Section 20
177
Section 21
185
Section 22
193

Section 9
79
Section 10
89
Section 11
97
Section 12
105
Section 13
113
Section 14
121
Section 23
201
Section 24
209
Section 25
217
Section 26
223
Section 27
233
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About the author (2017)

LOREN D. ESTLEMAN has written more than seventy books--historical novels, mysteries, and westerns. Winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards, and three Western Heritage Awards, his books include Ace & Eights, The Adventures of Johnny Vermillion, Alive!, and American Detective. He lives in Central Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

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