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Hello. Mayby some one could help me with this. Im looking for a name of famous western outlaw who was known for wearing his socks ON his shoes to avoide being tracked.
That was said of Charles E. Bolles, better known as "Black Bart."
I thought about yanking your chain and telling you that he rode a horse which wore fake cows' feet over its horseshoes to circumvent tracking, but decided against it.
Bart was the poetic bandit, composing poems in advance of his stagecoach robberies and leaving them behind at the scenes. From 1875 through 1883, Bart held up 23 stagecoaches, and was always described as polite and courteous as he could be under the circumstances. Bart was wounded during holdup # 23 and forced to flee the area, leaving behind the first clue the law had received concerning his identity. It was a handkerchief with a San Francisco laundry mark.
A detective named Harry N. Morse tracked down the laundry and determined that the handkerchief's owner was living there under the name C.E. Bolton...not far off from Bart's real name of Charles E. Bolles. Bart tried to lie his way out of it all, but eventually confessed. He wound up serving five years of a six year sentence at San Quentin, was released, and then vanished from history, so he must have been wearing those socks and leaving no tracks.
Black Bart to me was amongst the most fascinating of all the Old West outlaws, and it's not just because I live in Northern California. The whole double identity he had going on, his flamboyance nd eccentricity, and disappearing without a trace - fascinating, fascinating stuff.
Too bad he's been so ill-served on screen. There was a 1940s B western about him that didn't have an ounce of truth in it ; that's the only film that's ever been made of his life.
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