Black Bart (outlaw) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In A Christmas Story (1983) there is a dream scene where Ralphie shoots Black Bart and his marauders with his air rifle.

• In the late 1980s, a satirical portrait of Black Bart was performed in a commercial for Honey Nut Cheerios.

• Black Bart is a villain in The Stagecoach, an album in the famous Lucky Luke Belgian-French comic book series by René Goscinny and Morris. While the hero manages to shoot and disable Bart's shotgun, he is not able to catch him. The depiction of the outlaw is extremely accurate, and includes a transcription of his poems. It is also mentioned that Black Bart was identified and caught on the basis of a laundry mark.

• The designers of the video game Fallout 3 originally intended to have a unique BB-gun called the Black Bart's Bane (it can be acquired by using console commands).

• In some areas where Black Bart operated, notably Redwood Valley, California, there is a traditional annual Black Bart Parade featuring a man dressed as Black Bart playing him as a stereotypical Old West villain. There is a large rock at the side of Highway 101 on the Ridgewood Summit between Redwood Valley and Willits known by locals as "Black Bart Rock", though it is not the actual rock behind which Black Bart was reputed to have hidden while robbing stagecoaches (that rock having been lost in a series of highway improvements over the years).

• In San Andreas, CA (Calaveras County), the Black Bart Inn has information about the outlaw and rumors about how he may have stayed there located within the inn office.

• Black Bart is one of the many outlaws mentioned in Michael Martin Murphey's song "Rhymes of the Renegades."