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Agnes C. Laut The Freebooters Of The Wilderness

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English
107718 Words
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"Well," She Asked, "Are You Going to Straddle Or Fight?" How Like A Woman, How Like A [more]

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Agnes C. Laut The Freebooters Of The Wilderness part-I

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107111 Words
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How Like A Woman, How Like A Child, How Typical Of The Outsider's Shallow View Of Any [more]

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Charles White History of Australian Bushranging

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History
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225143 Words
Ages 6 and up
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History of Australian Bushranging: Illustrated by Charles White. Classic account of Australian bushranging recounts in vivid detail, the deeds of the early bush bandits. Attracted by the fast, free life, these native born Australians plundered the gold escorts and crowded coaches, fighting it out with the police - heroes in the eyes of the public they robbed. The early history of bushranging in Australia will never be written, for the facts have never been recorded. Limited though the colony was in extent, its literature—even its journalism—was still more limited. Moreover, the first men who "took the bush" were neither important nor interesting enough to obtain more than a passing mention in those Governors' despatches which are our chief authorities for early colonial history. The name, being applied to men who, some from choice and some from necessity, ranged the bush as freebooters, "sticking-up" settlers and travellers and demanding in orthodox style "your money or your life." [more]

Keywords: Outlaws, Black Caesar, Martin Cash, Bold Jack Donohoe, British Colonisation Australia, Australia, Freebooters, Colonial History, Charles White, Australian Bushranging, History, Illustrated

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H. B. Irving A Book Of Remarkable Criminals (Fiscle Part-X)

Humor
English
97872 Words
Ages 18 and up
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"The Silent Workings, And Still More The Explosions, Of Human Passion Which Bring to Light The Darker Elements Of Man'S Nature Present To The Philosophical Observer Considerations Of Intrinsic Interest; While To The Jurist, The Study Of Human Nature And Human Character With Its Infinite Varieties, Especially As Affecting the Connection Between Motive And Action, Between Irregular Desire Or Evil Disposition And Crime Itself, Is Equally Indispensable And Difficult."--_Wills On Circumstantial Evidence_. I Remember My Father Telling me That Sitting up Late One Night Talking With Tennyson, The Latter Remarked that He Had Not Kept Such Late Hours Since A Recent Visit Of Jowett. On That Occasion The Poet And The Philosopher Had Talked together Well Into The Small Hours Of The Morning. My Father Asked tennyson What Was The Subject Of Conversation That Had So Engrossed them. "Murders," Replied tennyson. It Would Have Been Interesting to Have Heard Tennyson And Jowett Discussing such A Theme. The Fact Is A Tribute To The Interest That Crime Has For Many Men Of Intellect And Imagination. Indeed, How Could It Be Otherwise? Rob History And Fiction Of Crime, How Tame And Colourless Would Be The Residue! We Who Are Living and Enduring in the Presence Of One Of The Greatest Crimes On Record, Must Realise That Trying as This Period Of The World'S History Is To Those Who Are Passing through It, In the Hands Of Some Great Historian It May Make Very Good Reading for Posterity. Perhaps We May Find Some Little Consolation In this Fact, Like The Unhappy Victims Of Famous Freebooters Such As Jack Sheppard Or Charley Peace. [more]

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