Bushranger

When Bush Ranger ( or Bush - ranger ) escaped convicts in Australia were originally designated. Later the term was applied to outlaws and robbers, whose retreat was the inhospitable scrubland. John Caesar (1764-1796), known as Black Caesar was the first Australian Bushranger, the most famous bushranger, Ned Kelly (1855-1880), was also one of the last.

History

By 1880 there were about 2000 Bushranger, some of which have gone down in Australian folklore. Their great time was 1850-1860, when the gold rush rich booty enabled. Most were men, but some women were among them, including Mary Ann Bugg (1834-1905), daughter of a convict and an Aborigine, the longer time with the Bushranger Frederick Ward ( Captain Thunderbolt called ) ( 1835-1870 ) lived.

Among the Aborigines is Musquito, The Black Bush Ranger (1780-1825), became the most famous, because he against the colonists sat down violently resisted. He was executed after a show trial type, which even the local press felt as scandalous because he was considered to be " a violation of the law of nations ." His actions today are mainly classified by historians as an individual not breaking the law, but as an act of resistance, the Mosquito made ​​along with other Aboriginal people.

Reception

In the literature, the Bushranger have often been romanticized. Edward Harrington brought the in his poem The Bush Rangers directly on the term: "Whatever Their faults and whatever Their crimes, / Their deeds lend romance to Those faraway times ." Banjo Paterson's John Gilbert ( bushranger ) said: " And Johnny Gilbert said, Said he, ' We'll never hurt a hair / Of men who bravely did Recognise we are just all there .'" Finally wrote John Streeter Manifold in 1941 in The Death of Ned Kelly: " Ned Kelly fought the rich men in the country and in town, / Ned Kelly fought the troopers Until They ran him down". The theme was early popular enough to be the subject of Australia's first drama: Charles Harpurs The Bush Rangers. In the painting the motif of the Bushrangers was often edited. The greatest effect was clearly have Bailed Up by Tom Roberts.