Although this may not be the "Black Bess" you're thinking of, the highwayman Dick Turpin had a horse by this name.
The fictional character Dick Turpin is often associated with a horse named Black Bess. He was a notorious English highwayman who supposedly rode this horse during his robberies in the 18th century, as depicted in various literary and cultural works.
The Highwayman, Dick Turpin's horse was named Black Bess.
it wasn't called black bess at all he never had a named horse because he rode stolen horses black bess is a name people got from the poem the highwayman because they assumed that the poem was about dick turpin and in the poem he has a girlfriend called bess who had black hair so a leganed surronded him that he called his horse black bess after her but he didnt. the poem the highwayman may not even be about dick turpin
Although many people believed Dick Turpins horse was called 'Black Bess' he never actually have a specifically named horse, he actually stole horses.
The highwayman Dick Turpin owned the black bess
Black Bess was the horse of Dick Turpin, an English highwayman of the 1730's. The horse completed the journey from London to York in less than 24 hours
Dick Turpin rode Black Bess.
Black Bess
Most people would say he had a horse named Black Bess but this is a myth it was just written in a story by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.
Most people would say he had a horse named Black Bess but this is a myth it was just written in a story by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.
In Walter Farley's books about The Black Stallion, the horse is actually named The Black. Before The Black was shipwrecked, he was known as Shaitan (Arabic for Satan).
The founding Tennessee Walking Horse was a horse named Black Allen born 1885.
Yes, she did.