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Martin Cash is a 1955 Australian biography by Frank Clune about the bushranger Martin Cash. [1] It was also published as Martin Cash: The Lucky Bushranger and Martin Cash: The Last of the Tasmanian Bushrangers. [2]
Edward Kelly (December 1854 [a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police. Kelly was born and raised in rural Victoria, the third of eight children to Irish parents.
Martin Cash (baptised 10 October 1808 – 26 August 1877) was a notorious Irish-Australian convict bushranger, known for escaping twice from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land. His 1870 autobiography, The Adventures of Martin Cash , ghostwritten by James Lester Burke, also a former convict, became a best seller in Australia .
Ben Hall the Bushranger is a 1947 Australian historical novel by Frank Clune about the bushranger Ben Hall.It tried to focus on Hall's motivations. [1]He wrote this and Dark Outlaw as historical novels while researching his large non fiction book Wild Colonial Boys.
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The Kelly Hunters is a 1954 Australian book by Frank Clune about the hunt for bushranger Ned Kelly. [1] [2]The book sold very well. [3]The Sun-Herald said "Indefatigable researcher and skilled storyteller, Clune presents Ned Kelly neither as the persecuted hero of one legend nor the bloodthirsty ruffian of another, but as an intelligible and highly intelligent human being."
It is not to be confused with the 1834 play The Bushrangers or the 1854 play The Bushranger, or the Last Crime. The play was published in book for in 1971, the year the play was first performed in Australia (at a high school). A reviewer said "I think it is unlikely to find many serious producers.
The last major phase of bushranging peaked towards the end of the decade, epitomised by the Kelly gang, led by Ned Kelly, Australia's best-known bushranger and outlaw. Although bushrangers appeared sporadically into the early 20th century, most historians regard Kelly's capture and execution in 1880 as effectively representing the end of the ...