Bushrangers : a pictorial history, [by] Harry Nunn

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Label

Bushrangers : a pictorial history, [by] Harry Nunn

Title remainder

a pictorial history

Statement of responsibility

[by] Harry Nunn

Instantiates

• Bushrangers : a pictorial history

Publication

• Sydney, Lansdowne Press, 1980, c1979

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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

Control code

000001693772

Dimensions

29cm.

Extent

226p.

Isbn

9780701813635

Other physical details

ill., facs., portraits.

Record ID

u478910

System control number

(OCoLC)7573918