Galloping Jones: and other true stories from Australia's history

Galloping Jones was a bare-knuckle-fighting larrikin who could tame any horse. Moondyne Joe escaped from prison using an ingenious plan that made a whole colony laugh. Caroline Coleman was a settler who raised her children in Western Queensland, and buried her husband behind the store they built near the Thomson River. Nemarluk was an Aboriginal freedom fighter, who terrorised the Daly River region of the Northern Territory.

Based on the popular weekly Stories of Oz history posts, these sketches of Australia’s past will inform and entertain you. Above all, they will remind you of what life was like, in the days before highways and smart phones.

• Whistler's Bones: A Novel of the Australian Frontier
• Camp Leichhardt: One man, a wild river, and a crime that must be stopped.
• Dirt Classroom: An inspiring true adventure through the Australian Outback
• Red Jack and the Ragged Thirteen
• On the Brink of Tears (The Brigandshaw Chronicles Book 5)
• MY SHOUT AT THE DALY WATERS PUB: My extraordinary story of owning what is arguably the most famous outback hotel in Australia.
• They Even Paid Me: Raw reflections of a third generation Kimberley cattleman.
• Framed!: A Young Boy's Fight to Survive in the Wild Australian Bush
• White Spirit (A novel based on a true story)