[UA] Sydney Cliomantic Database - your help is needed!

[James O'Rance]

Gaston Phillips <gaston at math.sunysb.edu> said:

 >>>There's some history in Australia that I'm not entirely familiar with - 
about this type of outlaw person that roughly corresponds to the American 
Cowboy.<<<

Bushrangers - they were kind of an anarchist/freedom fighter/highway robber 
thing (each individual was different).

Some of them had such colourful names, such as Captain Midnight, that I 
included them in the superheroic history of an Australian comic setting that 
was briefly discussed a few years ago (I think that the financial backer's 
wife talked him out of it).

 >>>I remember the name Ned Something-or-Other as being one of the big 
names.  This guy had been, like, shot 30+ times, hung, stabbed, &c.<<<

I think you're confusing Ned Kelly (famous for his iron armour) with 
Rasputin. Kelly put on some scary-looking armour (including a full-face 
helmet), only to get shot in the leg and arrested. He was tried and hanged; 
his famous last words were "Such is life" IIRC.

Ned Kelly became rather famous in Australia, helped not a little by a series 
of films (the first was made in the 1900s, I think).

There could be something UA in this guy.

Try a websearch on "bushrangers", perhaps using an Australian search engine. 
Or just use Google, which will probably find what you want anyway.


Cheers,

James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

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