Author: Charles WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Australian Bushranging
Author: Charles WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
History of Australian Bushranging
Author: Charles WhitePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This volume recounts the early history of bushranging in Australia. Excerpt: Owing to the stringent military rule during the first years of convict settlement, the unknown character of the country, and the absence of prey in the shape of men with money or other possessions (the aborigines being the only occupants of the soil outside the properly formed settlements), those who were called bushrangers then were simply men who had broken away from their gangs in the hope of escaping from the torture of labour under Government. The name has been made to carry a very different meaning since then, being applied to men who, some from choice and some from necessity, ranged the bush as freebooters, "sticking-up" settlers and travelers and demanding in orthodox style "your money or your life."
The Story of Australian Bushranging
Author: Charles WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bushrangers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Captain Thunderbolt
Author: Jane SmithPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1925520730
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Frederick Wordsworth Ward, better known as 'Captain Thunderbolt', had one of the longest bushranging 'careers' in history. Plaguing New South Wales for almost seven years, he enjoyed much public support as he was intelligent, and charming. This book describes some of Thunderbolt's exploits and refutes many of the popular myths that surround him.
History of Australian Bushranging
Author: Charles WhitePublisher: Viking
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Story of the Australian Bushrangers
Author: George BoxallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
History of the Australian Bushrangers
Author: George Eedes BoxallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Last Bushrangers
Author: Mike MunroPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1460710657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniffs. Easter Sunday, 1902, deep in the Carnarvon Ranges a police constable and station manager are slain then later incinerated, their remains stuffed into saddlebags. Accused of the ghoulish crime are two members of the bushranging Kenniff gang, fast gaining notoriety as Queensland's equivalent of the Kelly gang. Yet the murders are a bold escalation from the petty fraud, horse stealing and cattle duffing the gang is known for. Starving and exhausted after three long months on the run, the brothers are finally captured, and so the wheels of justice start to turn. The story of the Kenniffs has fascinated Mike Munro for decades - ever since he found out these last bushrangers were his family. If not for Mike's grandfather illegally changing his name in shame from Kenniff to Munro, this major figure in Australian television would be known to us as Mike Kenniff. But who were Mike's relatives? What drove them to their life of crime? And were the brothers really responsible for such terrible murders? In answering these questions Mike Munro takes us back to the dawn of Federation, when bush skills and horsemanship could help outlaws escape the police, when remote pastoralists were vulnerable targets for thieves and marauders, when race and class divides were entrenched - but resented - and when brutal, feckless outlaws faced the ultimate punishment. This is a story that is both gripping and personal, and an insight into an Australia just coming of age. PRAISE FOR THE LAST BUSHRANGERS 'All families have a secret ... but Mike's is a doozy! This touching, TRUE story is a terrific read!' Di Morrissey 'A thoroughly informed, lively and balanced page-turner' Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald
The Girl Who Helped Ned Kelly
Author: Charles E TaylorPublisher:
ISBN: 9781925706925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Originally serialised around Australia in 1929, this is a romanticized version of the Kelly story, by a writer who interviewed Jim Kelly and several sympathisers at the time. With original drawings by Ray Wenban, and introduced by Gabriel Bergmoser.
The Story of the Australian Bushrangers
Author: George E. BoxallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description