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 59
... settlers , his neighbours , complained of these depredations , and of Singleton's familiarity with their assigned servants and with ex - convict small settlers , he is reported to have replied that— they would take as many Cattle as ...
... settlers , his neighbours , complained of these depredations , and of Singleton's familiarity with their assigned servants and with ex - convict small settlers , he is reported to have replied that— they would take as many Cattle as ...
Page 70
... Settlers and Convicts , pp . 20 , 24 . 30 G. C. Mundy , Our Antipodes , etc. , 3rd ed . , London 1855 , p . 155 ; and cp . J. P. Townsend , Rambles and Observations , etc. , London 1849 , pp . 152-3 . 31 R.A.H.S. Journal and Proceedings ...
... Settlers and Convicts , pp . 20 , 24 . 30 G. C. Mundy , Our Antipodes , etc. , 3rd ed . , London 1855 , p . 155 ; and cp . J. P. Townsend , Rambles and Observations , etc. , London 1849 , pp . 152-3 . 31 R.A.H.S. Journal and Proceedings ...
Page 108
... Settlers and Convicts , p . 1 . 16 H. W. Haygarth , op . cit . , p . 45 ff .; and A. Joyce , A Homestead History , ed . G. F. James , 2nd ed . , Melbourne 1949 , p . 112 . 17 A. Marjoribanks , op . cit . , p . 35 ff .; and J. Stephens ...
... Settlers and Convicts , p . 1 . 16 H. W. Haygarth , op . cit . , p . 45 ff .; and A. Joyce , A Homestead History , ed . G. F. James , 2nd ed . , Melbourne 1949 , p . 112 . 17 A. Marjoribanks , op . cit . , p . 35 ff .; and J. Stephens ...
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