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 Australian Bushrangers written by Robert Coupe and published by New Holland Australia(AU). This book was released on 1998 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history of bushranging in Australia. From the initial, brutal days of European settlement and our first convict - bushranger Black Caesar in 1789 to the capture and death of legendary folk hero Ned Kelly in 1880.An aura of romance surrounds the idea of Australian bushrangers. The passage of time has invested the most celebrated of them with a kind of swashbuckling dash; they are often portrayed as men who pitted their wits and skills against the dangers and privations of life on the run and the superior resources of an unjust and oppressive regime.
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 2 written by Charles White and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sequel to the first volume. The book is set during the period of bushranging in Australia. Excerpt: For some time after the robbery of the Escort at Eugowra Rocks, Hall, Gilbert, and O'Meally kept away from their usual haunts; but were by no means idle during their temporary seclusion, and not a few cases of "sticking-up" in lonely parts of the bush roads in the Lachlan district were, not without reason, charged against one or other of them by the authorities and the public. While the fate of their late companions—Mann, Bow, and Fordyce—was hanging in the balance they were arranging fresh plots under the very noses of the police. As in the case of Gardiner, a perfect system of "bush telegraphy" had been established in every locality where their friends resided; and as they invariably moved with a given object from their hiding places, and either returned direct to the place from which they had started or made for some other friendly shelter in another direction, they were always in touch with their "telegraphs" and were thus kept posted in every movement made by the force whose aim it was to capture them.
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 Frank Gardiner written by Jane Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 95 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 behalf 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 exile.
Download or read book Australian Bushrangers written by George Eedes Boxall and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Australian Bushranging written by Charles White and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michael Howe The Last and Worst of the Bush Rangers of Van Dieman s Land written by Thomas E. Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following book revolves around Michael Howe, a British convict who became a notorious bushranger and gang leader in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia. It covers both the crimes that he was arrested for and the events that led up to his capture.
Download or read book History of Australian Bushranging written by Charles White and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 333 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 The Bushrangers written by Henry Melville and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australia's wild woods, notorious bushrangers rule the land. They'll take a man for every penny and knock his brain from his head without a thought. And with a score to be settled, Bill Fellows and his gang of bushrangers are focused on revenge.
Download or read book History of Australian Bushranging written by Charles White and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping true crime book recounts the exploits of Australia's notorious bushrangers, who robbed banks, stagecoaches, and homesteads in the late 19th century. White profiles the most famous outlaws, including Ben Hall, Ned Kelly, and the Wild Colonial Boy, and explores the social and economic conditions that shaped their outlaw lifestyles. True crime enthusiasts and history buffs will find this book hard to put down. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book History of the Australian Bushrangers written by George E. Boxall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Australian Bushrangers In this story of the bushrangers I do not pretend to have included the names of all those who have at various times been called bushrangers in Australia. That, as will be seen from what I have said in the earlier chapters, would be not merely impossible but useless. I believe, however, that I have collected some particulars about all those who succeeded in winning even a local notoriety, and I have also endeavoured to supply such personal characteristics of the leaders in the movement as may throw some light on the causes which induced them to "take to the bush." My principal object, however, has been to make the picture as complete as possible, so that the magnitude of the social evil which the Australians set themselves to cure may be realised; and it is generally believed in Australia that this cure has been so complete that bushranging will never again become epidemic. The story is a terrible one. Some of the incidents related are no doubt revolting, but it is necessary that even these should be told to show how civilised man may be degraded by unjust and oppressive laws. We are all creatures of the educational influences to which we are subjected in our youth, and therefore it is unfair to blame the earlier bushrangers; because they were the products of the civilisation of their day, and were not themselves responsible. But sensational as the story is, its tendency is rather to depress than to exhilarate the reader, for the story is a sad one, in that it shows a deplorable waste of what under happier conditions might have been useful lives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Australian Bushrangers written by George Boxall and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bushrangers written by Anna Purcell and published by Young Reed. This book was released on 2014 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read how dashing and feckless individuals have captured the imaginations of so many, and their deeds immortalised in song, films and stories. Australia's history is filled with colourful characters from convict escapees to colonial highwaymen, called bushrangers. This book describes the outlaws, how they lived and the people they lived with, as well as that most infamous of Australia's bushrangers - Ned Kelly.
Download or read book History of Australian Bushranging written by Charles White and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
