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Black Bart

Black Bart was the nickname of Welsh-born pirate, Bartholomew Roberts.


"Black Bart" is also a musical theater study by Juan Maria Solare, for one preferably long-haired female singer. Texts from Charles E. Bolton. (Buenos Aires, May 1993 and Köln, February 1995) [1'10"]. 4 pages. It is dedicated to Ligia Liberatori and was performed by her on 17 July, 2001, in the Aula 2 og the University in Cologne.


Black Bart "the Po-8" was a poet and American Old West outlaw.

In California on July 26, 1878 he made his last clean getaway when he stole a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box was found later with a taunting poem inside. On November 3, 1883 he got away with his last stagecoach robbery, but this time he left an incriminating clue that eventually led to his capture.