2-636-640 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Coach Would Be Held-Up and All The Passengers Robbed', c1908, (c1920). Bushrangers originally referred to escaped convicts from the British colonial settlement, living in the Australian Bush. By the 1820s, the term ‘bushranger’ was used widely in connection to highwaymen and robbers. From Our Empire Story, by H. E. Marshall. [Thomas Nelson And Sons, London, c1920]