John Boessenecker’s new biography of Black Bart, plus three new history-travel books, a Southern Plains adventure and a collection of rip-roaring Western tales.
Who really was Black Bart? Prolific, award-winning Western historian John Boessenecker seeks to answer this question with his outstanding research and literary style in Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West’s Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber (Hanover Square Press, $32.99).
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True West April 2023
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- You Can Never Just Have One
- Abilene, Kansas
- Crazy Horse, Preachers and Horse Thieves
- What History Has Taught Me with Robert Vaughan
- The Lawful and the Lawless
- You Had to Look Hard – The Marquis de Morès Did
- A Champion of the Small Ranchers
- Shooting Back
- Truth Be Known
- Tallyho Coach at Hot Springs, Dakota Territory