The True History of the Australian Bushrangers
Book Details
Author(s)Jack Bradshaw
PublisherThe Worker Trustees, Sydney
ISBN / ASINB0050YYO0S
ISBN-13978B0050YYO07
Sales Rank506,513
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This book has been re-typed from an original version of "The True History of the Australian Bushrangers by Jack Bradshaw. It is offered with a front cover scanned from the original. It's date is debatable with some conflicting entries (in-text letters etc) - perhaps 1911 to 1925, and some of the book seems 'patched' together, making it appear to have been written at different times. However it contains a lot of local detail, and black and white photos and drawings. Bradshaw covers the background and the adventures of outlaws such as Ben Hall, Darkie Gardiner, Morgan, The Clarke Brothers, Peisley, Johnny Dunn, Ned Kelly and others. Bradshaw uses extremely colourful language and seemingly gets very cross with other writers of the time such as Boldrewood and Ambrose Pratt, accusing them of falsifying events, dates etc. However, researchers say that some of Bradshaw's details are in question also!
I feel that to read all the available literature of the time adds interest and more dimensions to outlaw history and I hope to be producing more books written 1850 - 1930 which are threatened by extinction because of their rarity, age and condition.
This book is A5 and sold as a new book, around 200 pages.
JACK BRADSHAW
This enigmatic man was born in Dublin C1846 and arrived in Melbourne in 1860. Although he started working as a shearer, working on farms and as a station hand, he turned to a life of crime. His main act was holding up the Quirindi Bank in 1880 together with "Lovely Riley" (so called because of Riley's ugliness). They got away with £2000 and some time after Riley's arrest, Bradshaw was arrested and did 8 years of his 12 year sentence. Around 1888 he was again arrested for stealing mail from mailbags and this time was jailed for around 12 years. He first wrote "The Last of the Bushrangers," and later travelled giving lectures on bushranging and life in prison around Victoria and New South Wales.
Jack was not an educated man, his rendering is the colourful jargon and sayings of that time and place.
He was still selling this book, "The True History of the Australian Bushrangers" door to door when he was 85 years of age.
I offer combined postage for multiple purchases.
Thank you for looking.
I feel that to read all the available literature of the time adds interest and more dimensions to outlaw history and I hope to be producing more books written 1850 - 1930 which are threatened by extinction because of their rarity, age and condition.
This book is A5 and sold as a new book, around 200 pages.
JACK BRADSHAW
This enigmatic man was born in Dublin C1846 and arrived in Melbourne in 1860. Although he started working as a shearer, working on farms and as a station hand, he turned to a life of crime. His main act was holding up the Quirindi Bank in 1880 together with "Lovely Riley" (so called because of Riley's ugliness). They got away with £2000 and some time after Riley's arrest, Bradshaw was arrested and did 8 years of his 12 year sentence. Around 1888 he was again arrested for stealing mail from mailbags and this time was jailed for around 12 years. He first wrote "The Last of the Bushrangers," and later travelled giving lectures on bushranging and life in prison around Victoria and New South Wales.
Jack was not an educated man, his rendering is the colourful jargon and sayings of that time and place.
He was still selling this book, "The True History of the Australian Bushrangers" door to door when he was 85 years of age.
I offer combined postage for multiple purchases.
Thank you for looking.
