San Andreas, CA — Later this month history lovers are invited to hear a reading of an eye-witness account of the shooting of the infamous Black Bart.
Bill Renwick will read from his great-grandfather´s manuscript detailing Black Bart´s last holdup. Renwick´s great-grandfather, Reason McConnell, was driving the stagecoach.
McConnell wrote his manuscript in 1912, which was recently published as,The Autobiography Of Reason E. McConnell: The Man Who Shot Black Bart.”
The dinner takes place at 6 p.m. on May 24 at the Metropolitan.
RSVP to the Calaveras County Historical Society at (209) 754-1058.
Written by Vanessa Turner.
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