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Boundary crossers : the hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers / Meg Foster.

Boundary crossers : the hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers / Meg Foster.
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ISBN 9781742237527
Author Foster, Meg (author)
Title Boundary crossers : the hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers / Meg Foster.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Sydney, NSW : NewSouth, 2022.
Description 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes index and bibliographic references.
Summary Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They're remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were seen in this glowing light in their own time. And not all were white men.In Boundary Crossers, historian Meg Foster reveals the stories of bushrangers who didn't fit the mould. African American man Black Douglas, who was seen as the terror of the Victorian goldfields, Sam Poo, known as Australia's only Chinese bushranger, Aboriginal man Jimmy Governor, who was renowned as a mass murderer, and Captain Thunderbolt's partner, Aboriginal woman Mary Ann Bugg, whose extraordinary exploits extended well beyond her time as 'the Captain's Lady'. These bushrangers' remarkable lives have been forgotten, obscured, misrepresented or erased from the national story for over a century, and this is no accident. All is not as it appears. There is far more to these bushrangers, and their histories, than immediately meets the eye.
Subjects Bugg, Mary Ann, -- 1834-1905
Governor, Jimmy, -- 1875-1901
Poo, Sam
Aboriginal Australians -- History
Chinese -- Australia -- History
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- History
Bushrangers -- Australia -- History
Outlaws -- Australia -- History
Australia -- History -- 19th century
Call number 2022.240
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