On 2009-12-01 10:03 AM, Edna MacPherson SABATO wrote: > GEORGE BOXALL. Oh dear oh dear perhaps The Royal Mounted Bushrangers by appointment to the Crown That Bushranging Act seemed pretty awful and Bourke tried to drop it. The text of the book seems to be here http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofaustral00boxauoft/historyofaustral00boxauoft_djvu.txt an extract Mr. BOXALL'S volume about Australian bushrangers is not always agreeable reading, for it concerns the exploits of some of the most murderous and daring ruffians whose names are to be found in the annals of crime. -- Ron Lankshear -Sydney NSW (from London-Shepherds Bush/Chiswick) try my links http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lankshear/

Actually I have the book and it is quite good. Nicked it from school 45 years ago! Maybe I am a latent Bushranger . Hi yo Silver - well I was a Lone. Ron Lankshear in Sydney NSW wrote: > On 2009-12-01 10:03 AM, Edna MacPherson SABATO wrote: >> GEORGE BOXALL. > > Oh dear oh dear > perhaps The Royal Mounted Bushrangers by appointment to the Crown > > That Bushranging Act seemed pretty awful and Bourke tried to drop it. > > The text of the book seems to be here > > http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofaustral00boxauoft/historyofaustral00boxauoft_djvu.txt > > > an extract > Mr. BOXALL'S volume about Australian bushrangers is not > always agreeable reading, for it concerns the exploits of some of the > most murderous and daring ruffians whose names are to be found in the > annals of crime. >