Bushranger ballads / selected and with an introduction by Bill Scott ; illustrated by Pro Hart
- Bib ID:
- 1338081
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- Third impression.
- Description:
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- Sydney : Lansdowne Press, 1982
- ©1976
- 64 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
- ISBN:
- 0701813369
- Summary:
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"Here, then, are some of the poems and ballads that were written about the bolters and wild colonial boys. There are a few by contemporary poets, but in the main they were written at the time the events described took place, and have all the sense of immediacy about them that their composition implies." -- Introduction.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction.
- Bold Jack Donohoe / anon.
- A bushranger / Kenneth Slessor.
- The wild colonial boy / anon.
- The death of Morgan / anon.
- The morning of the fray / anon.
- Frank Gardiner / anon.
- The diverting history of John Gilbert / anon.
- The death of Ben Hall / anon.
- The streets of Forbes / John Mcguire(?)
- The Maryborough miner / anon.
- Thunderbolt / W. N. Scott
- A day's ride / anon.
- The death of Peter Clark / Hubert H. Parry ("Barwon")
- A night's walk / anon.
- Stringybark Creek / anon.
- The Kelly gang / anon.
- The ballad of Jack Lefroy / anon.
- Bogong Jack and the trooper / John Manifold
- Bold Archibold Malone / Dave Worthington.
- Notes:
- First published: Sydney : Ure Smith, 1976.
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- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2076 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2006
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1976
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