| Description |
226 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portrs. ; 29cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- Callous killers to gentlemanly wrongdoers -- The first era -- Convict bolters escape from misery -- Bolters turn to piracy -- The second era -- Gold fields produce armed stick-ups -- The third era -- The rise and fall of bushranging in the 1860s and 70's -- The romantic outlook brings heroism to bushranging -- The first era -- English highwaymen, precursors of Australian bushrangers -- Penal settlements produce convict Bolters -- Brutalized convicts turn bushrnager -- Bushranging becomes rife -- The second era -- Robbers were mostly callous vandiemonians -- Mail and goods disappear -- Gold robbers, tough and heavily armed -- The 'flashness' of wild colonials -- The third era -- The new breed of bushrangers - fearless and free -- Popular heroes of some sympathy and adulation -- The history of the celebrated Ned Kelly -- Bushranging ceases to be popular -- Index |
| Summary |
History of Australian bushranging from first convict bolters to later native-born heroes. 'Wild Colonial Boys', gold rush robbers of 1850s, Ned Kelly the last of the bushrangers |
| Analysis |
Australia - bushrangers |
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Bushrangers. Australia. Illustrations |
| Notes |
Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Bushrangers -- Juvenile literature.
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Bushrangers -- Pictorial works.
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Bushrangers -- Australia -- History.
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Bushrangers -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
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Bushrangers.
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| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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| LC no. |
81460165 |
| ISBN |
0701813636 |
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