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... popular they may be .... It is natural to suppose that transportation ballads would have been especially popular among our pioneers , and there is evidence to show that this was , in fact , the case . As late as 1888 a Sydney Bulletin ...
... popular they may be .... It is natural to suppose that transportation ballads would have been especially popular among our pioneers , and there is evidence to show that this was , in fact , the case . As late as 1888 a Sydney Bulletin ...
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... popular was his playing to the gallery . Unhappily , none of the bushranging ballads to which Cunning- ham refers in the above passage has survived . It was not until 1830 that the death of a bushranger gave rise to a ballad which has ...
... popular was his playing to the gallery . Unhappily , none of the bushranging ballads to which Cunning- ham refers in the above passage has survived . It was not until 1830 that the death of a bushranger gave rise to a ballad which has ...
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... popular imagination of the noble frontiersman , around whom there clings an aura of high romance , in Turner's writings scarcely less than in those of Fenimore Cooper and his legions of successors . As mechanization and urbanization ...
... popular imagination of the noble frontiersman , around whom there clings an aura of high romance , in Turner's writings scarcely less than in those of Fenimore Cooper and his legions of successors . As mechanization and urbanization ...
Contents
THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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A. B. Paterson Aborigines American attitude Australian National ballads Ben Hall Britain British Bulletin bullock-drivers Bush Songs bush-workers bushmen bushrangers cabbage-tree hat cattle chum collectivist colonists colony contemporary criminals Currency Lads Diemen's Land diggers diggings districts Donahoo early economic emancipists Emigrant England English ethos fact feeling free immigrants frontier Furphy Gold Rush goldfields Harris History influence interior Irish Jack John labour less Library of Victoria living London masters mates mateship Melbourne middle-class Mundy native native-born Ned Kelly never nineteenth century noble frontiersman noble savage nomad tribe Norfolk Island old hands outback outlook pastoral workers perhaps period Plains police political popular population prisoners Queensland sentiment Settlers and Convicts shearers shearing sheep shepherd social society South Wales squatters station swagman Sydney Sydney Morning Herald tended tion tradition tralia Transportation Turner typical up-country Van Diemen's Land Victoria writes wrote