About the Aussie Bushranger: In Australia, escaped convicts were the original bushrangers, but as the gold rush came to Australia, a few lawless characters took to a life of ‘robbery under arms’. Men like Dan Morgan, Captain Thunderbolt, Dan Morgan and Ned Kelly would ‘bail-up’ people on the roads and rob small-town banks. Today the bushranger has been romanticised into an Aussie Icon. |