The Australian LegendThis book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life. |
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Page 64
... Harris . Martin Beck , the Negro overseer who is the hero of Harris's novel , explains to his employer , the new chum , gentle- man squatter : ... the emigrants are flats and the others [ freed men and natives ] are sharps . Of the two ...
... Harris . Martin Beck , the Negro overseer who is the hero of Harris's novel , explains to his employer , the new chum , gentle- man squatter : ... the emigrants are flats and the others [ freed men and natives ] are sharps . Of the two ...
Page 108
... Harris , Guide to Port Stephens , etc. , London 1849 , p . 75. Harris's statement that every door is without bolt or lock ' should be taken literally . See John Henderson , op . cit . , vol . 1 , p . 204 . 25 F. Lancelott , op . cit ...
... Harris , Guide to Port Stephens , etc. , London 1849 , p . 75. Harris's statement that every door is without bolt or lock ' should be taken literally . See John Henderson , op . cit . , vol . 1 , p . 204 . 25 F. Lancelott , op . cit ...
Page 204
... Harris , quoted ch . 4 , p . 79 above . 2 Dugald Ferguson , Vicissitudes of Bush Life , etc. , London 1891 , p . 29 ff .; A. Trollope , Australia and New Zealand , Melbourne 1876 , pp . 69 ff . , 202 , 503 ; P. Clarke , op . cit . , pp ...
... Harris , quoted ch . 4 , p . 79 above . 2 Dugald Ferguson , Vicissitudes of Bush Life , etc. , London 1891 , p . 29 ff .; A. Trollope , Australia and New Zealand , Melbourne 1876 , pp . 69 ff . , 202 , 503 ; P. Clarke , op . cit . , pp ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 15 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 46 |
Copyright | |
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A. B. Paterson Aborigines American attitude Australian national ballads become Ben Hall Britain British Bulletin bullock-drivers bush-workers bushmen bushrangers cabbage-tree hat cattle chum collectivist colonists colony contemporary criminals Currency Lad Diemen's Land diggers diggings districts Donahoo early economic emancipists Emigrant England English ethos fact feeling felt free immigrants frontier frontiersman Furphy Gold Rush goldfields Harris History influence interior Irish Jack John labour later least less Library of Victoria living London manners masters mates mateship Melbourne middle-class native native-born Ned Kelly never nineteenth century noble savage nomad tribe Norfolk Island old hands outback outlook pastoral workers Paterson perhaps period police political popular population prisoners Queensland sentiment Settlers and Convicts shearers shearing sheep shepherd social society South Wales squatters stanza station swagman Sydney tended tion tradition tralia Transportation Turner typical up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria working-class writes wrote