The Outback Vs the Wild WestBoolarong Press, 2012 - 240 ¶ In this volume, Drake focuses on the famous pastoral explorers, drovers and trail drivers; the poddydodgers, horse-thieves and rustlers; the wars of the land grabbers with Australian Aborigines and the American Indians; the clashes of lawless western entrepreneurs with the laws of the bit cities in the east; the colourful females who ventured our into a man¿s world and made thier names, the transport by puffing billies and famous stage coach lines and buckjumpers, roughriders and rodeos. |
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Early arrivals in Australia The lost colony of the Tanami Desert Whalers The grim | 9 |
The gunghter legend Australian gunghts Gunned down by Robert Burke | 33 |
Australian lawmen the bungling baronet Filibuster Frederick Walker of the native | 54 |
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