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[Both novelette and screenplay are included] Black Bart, the West's premier highwayman, alias Charles Bolton, T.Z. Spaulding, and others, made at least 28 hold-up's in eight years. Middle-aged, always on foot, and mostly with unloaded shotguns, he taunted the fabled Wells Fargo Express Company with doggerel signed Black Bart, The P o 8 (Poet). Resourceful and usually polite, he never robbed passengers. Freed from prison, he vanished. Based on a recently-found manuscript, the mystery of what happened is solved. Punster Bart, cloaked in more aliases, and malaprop Mad Molly Moon roam the Sierra…mehr

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[Both novelette and screenplay are included] Black Bart, the West's premier highwayman, alias Charles Bolton, T.Z. Spaulding, and others, made at least 28 hold-up's in eight years. Middle-aged, always on foot, and mostly with unloaded shotguns, he taunted the fabled Wells Fargo Express Company with doggerel signed Black Bart, The P o 8 (Poet). Resourceful and usually polite, he never robbed passengers. Freed from prison, he vanished. Based on a recently-found manuscript, the mystery of what happened is solved. Punster Bart, cloaked in more aliases, and malaprop Mad Molly Moon roam the Sierra Nevada's, meeting a host of characters including Colonel Ord Vivian, henchman Tiberius Bing, murderous Ben Bubbs, and the intrepid John Muir. The year is 1888. Do enter.
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Ted Middleton, a third-generation Californian, is a retired K-12 teacher. A San Jose State College graduate, B. A., M. A. and a Stanford University visiting scholar, he, as a college adjunct instructor, taught beginning and advanced journalism, California history, history of the American West, and Monterey studies classes. He was president and co-owner of Spyglass Productions, which made a number of educational releases, notably Friends of John Steinbeck, an oral history. He has contributed some 100 articles, often illustrated with his photographs, notably to Art of California, The American West, The Christian Science Monitor (photo only), The Monterey Peninsula Herald, The Oakland Tribune, Oceans, The San Francisco Examiner (ghostwritten), The San Jose Mercury, and Westways. He has altered his byline for better identity and noting his Middleton mother from whom he acquired story-telling skills and a sense of humor. He lives near Carmel, California with his amiable German shepherd called Molly, who visits his Humbug Room writing retreat.