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"Streets of Forbes" (Roud # 20764) is an Australian folksong about the death of bushranger Ben Hall.The song is one of the best-known elements of the Australian folk repertoire.
Patrick Kenniff (28 September 1865 – 13 January 1903) was an Australian bushranger who roamed western Queensland, Australia, with his brother James Kenniff (1869–1940). ). They were primarily cattle thieves, but the brothers were found guilty of murder and Patrick was hanged in Boggo Road Gaol in 1
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.
Among the last bushrangers was the Kelly gang in Victoria, led by Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous bushranger. After murdering three policemen in a shootout in 1878, the gang was outlawed, and after raiding towns and robbing banks into 1879, earned the distinction of having the largest reward ever placed on the heads of bushrangers.
The Bushranger, or the Last Crime is a 1854 Australian stage play. It debuted in Sydney in April 1854. [1] The play was about a fictitious bushranger, Charles Graves, and included "a grand series of equestrian feats, bare backed riding." [2]
Ned Kelly is a 1970 British-Australian biographical bushranger film. It was the seventh feature film version of the story of 19th-century Australian bushranger Ned Kelly, [5] and is notable for being the first Kelly film to be shot in colour. The film was directed by Tony Richardson, and starred Mick Jagger in the title role.
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 .
In 1904, he confirmed that the main character of Robbery Under Arms, Captain Starlight, while "chiefly imaginary", was inspired by "an undeveloped bushranger—part horse-thief—known as 'Midnight', in the Gulgong and Dubbo districts". Boldrewood scholars have noted that, apart from Midnight and Starlight's similar names, they both shared "a ...