Download or read book The Bushrangers written by Evan McHugh and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first convict runaways to the spectacular showdown that ended Ned Kelly's career, Evan McHugh delivers true tales of daring exploits and a cast of roguish characters who blazed their place into Australian history. These are incredible stories of the men - and women - who achieved fame not just by what they did, but by the way they did it, many of them lifting themselves from downtrodden underdogs to self-made heroes. There are heroic figures like Cash and Company, the prince of bushrangers Matthew Brady, Bold Jack Donohue, brave Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and of course, Ned Kelly. But there are also villains like Pearce the Cannibal, Jeffries the Monster and 'Mad Dog' Morgan. Bushrangers is as fast paced as a stolen thoroughbred and as arresting as a squad of troopers. Through extensive first-hand accounts and gripping detail about Australia's lawless past, bestselling author Evan McHugh brings a fresh perspective to a turbulent era of crime, defiance and emerging Australia identity.
Download or read book Captain Thunderbolt written by Jane Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-02 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Bushrangers written by Charles Joseph Finger and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Australian Bushrangers written by George Boxall and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Bushrangers 1788 1880 written by Ian Knight and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first 'bushrangers' or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness – 'the bush' – in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small, scattered garrisons, but by 1825 the problem of outlawry led to the formation of the first Mounted Police from these soldiers. The gold strikes of the 1860s attracted a new group of men who preferred to get rich by the gun rather than the shovel. The roads, and later railways, that linked the mines with the cities offered many tempting targets and were preyed upon by the bushrangers. This 1860s generation boasted many famous outlaws who passed into legend for their boldness. The last outbreak came in Victoria in 1880, when the notorious Kelly Gang staged several hold-ups and deliberately ambushed the pursuing police. Their last stand at Glenrowan has become a legendary episode in Australian history. Fully illustrated with some rare period photographs, this is the fascinating story of Australia's most infamous outlaws and the men tasked with tracking them down.
Download or read book History of the Australian Bushrangers written by George Eedes Boxall and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Bushrangers written by Mike Munro and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book The Story of the Australian Bushrangers written by George E. Boxall and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Australian Bushrangers written by George Boxall and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Australian Bushrangers written by George Boxall and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frank Gardiner written by Jane Margaret Smith and published by Dyslexic Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were few bushrangers whose influence extended as far as that of Frank Gardiner. Handsome, clever, charismatic and dangerous, he inspired many young men to abandon the drudgery of their honest work and turn to highway robbery. So strong was his influence that it set in motion a craze known as "Gardinerism". Gardiner was the leader of the infamous Gold Escort robbery at Eugowra Rocks; he was the one who almost "got away" with the crime. Escaping to Queensland and running a successful public house until his eventual, controversial arrest. Such was the man's charm and influence that respectable citizens petitioned successfully on his behlaf and Gardiner was released early from gaol amid a storm of controversy. This book outlines the life of Frank Gardiner, his descent into crime and the mystery of his final years in exhile.
Download or read book Australian Bushrangers written by Bill Scott and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the most notorious of Australia's bushrangers - men who were fugitives from the Law, who robbed, stole stock and sometimes killed. From this lawless period of our past when most men went armed, the names of Frank Gardiner, bold Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt, Captain Moonlight and Ned Kelly are well remembered.
Download or read book History of Australian Bushranging written by Charles White and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Download or read book Captain Starlight written by Jane Smith and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth book in the series features the two men known as ''''Captain Starlight''''. Both were bushrangers who travelled widely across the country in the second half of the 19th Century, and although their backgrounds and their crimes differed greatly, they are linked by their connection with a character from a novel. Frank Pearson was the first ''''Starlight who burst onto the scene in 1868, when he abandoned his practice as a doctor, stole a horse and took off on a bushranging spree that ended in a shoot out and the death of a policeman. Pearson was a very talented man: intelligent, well educated and well read, and a clever artist and composer. He was also a pathological liar with no moral compass whatsoever. He had so many aliases that we dont even know what his real name was. The other was Henry Readford, whose stunning theft of 1000 cattle was the inspiration for the fictional character ''''Captain Starlight'''' in Rolf Boldrewoods novel Robbery Under Arms.
Download or read book Australian Bushranging written by Charles White and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Australian Bushrangers written by George E. Boxall and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts in the early years of British settlement of Australia who used the bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. By the 1820s the term had evolved to refer to those who took up "robbery under arms" as a way of life, using the bush as their base, equivalents of the British highwayman, or the outlaws of America's Wild West. Their crimes tyically included robbing small-town banks and coach services, and some of the more notorious cases, including those related to Australia's best-known bushranger, Ned Kelly, involved the murder of numerous policemen. The author of this history made extensive use of newspaper reports of the time to tell the story of the various gangs. First published in 1899 and reprinted from the third edition of 1908.
Download or read book History of Australian Bushranging written by Charles White and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
