On 3 August 1877, the Wells Fargo stage from Fort Ross to Duncans Mills was robbed by Black Bart, also known as Charles E. Boles, Bolton, and T.Z. Spaulding, who used his feared command, “Throw down the box!” This was his fourth stage holdup and the first time he left poetry at the scene, writing on the back of a way bill: I’ve labored long and hard for bread for honor and for riches, but on my corns too long you’ve tred you fine haired sons of bitches. On 22 July 1880, he struck that stage again but left no poetry. It was assumed that both times he traveled to and from his holdups on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, which began service 8 May 1877. In his twenty-eight stage robberies, Black Bart never fired a shot.