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Perilous Trails, Dangerous Men Early California Stagecoach Robbers and Their Desperate Careers By William Secrest $15.95 Punctuated by gunshots and posse hoofbeats, these true tales, many told for the first time, illustrate, in both words and rare photographs, perilous trails and dangerous men from a time gone forever. While Tommy Brown and Buck English were born to raise hell, stagecoach robber Shorty Harris just wanted to buy a restaurant with his loot. Although he didn't plan on killing lawmen when he helped rob stages to aid the Confederacy, in the end, ex-Monterey County Undersheriff Tom Poole took the long walk up the Placerville scaffold for murdering Deputy Joseph Staples. The local newspaper reported, "He smiled on all and seemed perfectly resigned." Black Bart, the most famous stagecoach robber ever, robbed twenty-eight stages in eight years. Between robberies, he led the life of a society gentleman in San Francisco. The Sotello brothers, John Keener, Bill Miner, Louis J. Dreibelbis, Ramon Ruiz, and all the others were fascinating characters-a desperate breed who added their stories to the legends of the Old West.

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