"We call it our 'country Motörhead' song," said Michael Poulsen. "Black Bart is a true character, an outlaw in the 1800s who robbed Wells Fargo coaches. He’d ask the driver to throw down the Wells Fargo box, and he spoke like a gentleman: “Please, sir, throw down your box.“ The women in the coach would throw their pearls at his feet, but he always said, "I don’t want your pearls and your money, ladies, please take them back.” He wore a sack over his head so no one knew who he was, and he always left poems for the stagecoach driver. He was an outlaw gentleman."
He robbed Wells Fargo stagecoaches roughly 28 times across northern California between 1875 and 1883, including several times along the historic Siskiyou Trail between California and Oregon.
"We call it our 'country Motörhead' song," said Michael Poulsen. "Black Bart is a true character, an outlaw in the 1800s who robbed Wells Fargo coaches. He’d ask the driver to throw down the Wells Fargo box, and he spoke like a gentleman: “Please, sir, throw down your box.“ The women in the coach would throw their pearls at his feet, but he always said, "I don’t want your pearls and your money, ladies, please take them back.” He wore a sack over his head so no one knew who he was, and he always left poems for the stagecoach driver. He was an outlaw gentleman."
He robbed Wells Fargo stagecoaches roughly 28 times across northern California between 1875 and 1883, including several times along the historic Siskiyou Trail between California and Oregon.