The Bushrangers: Illustrating the Early Days of Van Diemen's Land

James Bonwick (1817 – 1906) was an English-born Australian historical and educational writer. Some of Bonwick's more important volumes were John Batman (1867); The Last of the Tasmanians, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, and Curious Facts of Old Colonial Days, all of which were published in 1870; Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought (1878), First Twenty Years of Australia (1882), Port Phillip Settlement (1883),

Bushrangers, or bush rangers, originally referred to runaway convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. The term "bushranger" then evolved to refer to those who abandoned social rights and privileges to take up "robbery under arms" as a way of life, using the bush as their base. These bushrangers were roughly analogous to British "highwaymen" and outlaws of the American Old West, and their crimes often included robbing small-town banks or coach services.

CONTENTS.
Early State of Society in Van Diemen's Land
Macquarie Harbour Settlement
Maria Island Settlement
Port Arthur Settlement
Female Bolters
Early Escapes
Cattle Stealers
Michael Howe, the Bushranger
Lemon
Pearce, the Cannibal
Brady, the Prince of Bushrangers
Dunne
Jeffries, the Monster
Britten, the Lost Bushranger
Harry Hunt

This book originally published by G. Robertson in 1856 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.