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"Guns and gold" is a comprehensive record of the weapons used by the miners during the period 1850-1900 including knives and firearms. Weapons were a requirement for miners for protection against the many theives and robbers who infested the roads on the way to the goldfields
Elizabeth Jessie Hickman, portrayed in recent years as the infamous Lady Bushranger of the Wollemi Valleys of New South Wales, had a very colourful life. Hers was a world of bush carnivals and buckjumping, cattle duffing, arrests and escapes, gaolings, reforms and more. Exposed here for the first time is a tale of deception surrounding a newborn infant, relationships, divorces, love, hate and heartbreak all mingling to create the complex life that was Jessies. Her granddaughter, Di Moore, was sixty-seven when she learned the truth about her biological grandparents from an elderly country saddler. By the time he had finished talking, Dis perception of her familys history was shakenand her cur...
Ben Hall (1837-1865) was born in New South Wales, Australia to Benjamin and Eliza Somers Hall, both of whom had been transported from Great Britain for stealing. Benjamin, Sr. continued for a number of years stealing cattle. In 1856 Ben married Bridget Walsh and soon after became a bushranger. After a short but violent career, Ben was shot and killed in a gunfight with troopers in 1865. He was the father of one son, whose descendants live in Australia.
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