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The Kelly hunters / Grantlee Kieza.

The Kelly hunters / Grantlee Kieza.
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ISBN 9780733341496
Author Kieza, Grantlee (author)
Title The Kelly hunters / Grantlee Kieza.
Cover title Kelly hunters : the desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlaw
Publisher and/or associated date/s Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Australia, 2022.
©2022.
Description 6 unnumbered, 327 numbered pages, 4 leaves of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.
Note "ABC Books"--Title page.
Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliographies: pages 288-292.
Summary The desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlaw. When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train before waging their final bloody gun battle with police in the small Victorian town of Glenrowan. In the 20 months between those shootouts and aided by a network of informers, hundreds of lawmen, soldiers, undercover agents and a team of Aboriginal trackers combed rugged mountains in freezing conditions in search of the outlaws. The police officers were brave, poorly paid and often ailing, some nearing retirement and others young with small children, but they risked death and illness in the hope of finding the men who had killed their comrades. The hunt for the Kelly gang became a fierce battle of egos between senior police as they prepared for the final shootout with Australia's most infamous bushrangers, a gun battle that etched Ned Kelly's physical toughness and defiance of authority into Australian folklore.
Subjects Kelly, Ned, -- 1855-1880
Kelly, Ned, -- 1855-1880 -- Friends and associates
Outlaws -- Australia -- Biography
Police -- Victoria -- History -- 1851-1891
Gunfights -- Victoria -- History -- 1851-1891
Bushrangers -- Australia -- Biography
Outlaws -- Victoria
Police murders -- Victoria
Police -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century
Bushrangers
Bushrangers -- Victoria
Bushrangers -- Victoria -- Biography
Victoria -- History -- 1851-1891
Glenrowan (Vic.) -- History
Australia -- History -- 1788-1900
Victoria -- Glenrowan
Call number 2022.185
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