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The hunt for the Governor gang of bushrangers. A posse of mounted police, aboriginal trackers and district volunteers. Jimmy & Joe Governor were sighted at Stewarts Brook on 12 September 1900 - Stewarts Brook, NSW / by A C Jackson

I mean business with this here gun!
the most hated where those who tracked their own kind
The hunt for the Governor gang of bushrangers. A posse of mounted police, aboriginal trackers and district volunteers. Jimmy & Joe Governor were sighted at Stewarts Brook on 12 September 1900 - Stewarts Brook, NSW / by A C Jackson by State Library of New South Wales collection.
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iansand  Pro User  says:

The hunt for Jimmy Governor was fictionalised by Tom Kenneally in "The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith".

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