With this mythic outlaw and the story of his mighty travails and exploits, and with all the force of a classic Western, Peter Carey has breathed life into a historical figure who transcends all borders and embodies tragedy, perseverance, and freedom. Still his country's most powerful legend, Ned Kelly is here chiefly a man in full: devoted son, loving husband, fretful father, and loyal friend, now speaking as if from the grave. In the end, however, she served out her sentence in the same Melbourne prison where, in 1880, her son was hanged. He declined to flee overseas when he could, bound to win his jailed mother's freedom by any means possible, including his own surrender. With his brothers and two friends, Kelly eluded a massive police manhunt for twenty months, living by his wits and strong heart, supplementing his bushwhacking skills with ingenious bank robberies while enjoying the support of most everyone not in uniform. To the authorities, this son of dirt-poor Irish immigrants was a born thief and, ultimately, a cold-blooded murderer to most other Australians, he was a scapegoat and patriot persecuted by "English" landlords and their agents. True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel Paperback Decemby Peter Carey (Author) 1,149 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 18.89 56 Used from 1.49 13 New from 17.24 14 Collectible from 13. This is Ned Kelly's true confession, in his own words and written on the run for an infant daughter he has never seen. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also?at a distance of many thousand miles and more than a century?a Great American Novel. "Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. As for the death of Silverman, Bailey’s notes of the robbery included the comment “to whit.” The notes suggest that he and the other robbers considered the death to be just part of their business.Hard Cover. Evans was located northeast of the southbound robbers’ car when he fired the rifle, making it likely he was responsible for the fatal shot.īailey’s book confirmed this version as well.
Sammie Silverman had been fatally shot in the back of the head. It was initially reported that the driver of the robbers’ car was struck in the front of his head through the windshield.Ī more accurate account emerged at the end of the summer, when the body of the robber was discovered by wild ginseng diggers in brush near Rochester. Thoma found all sorts of stories about the robbery in its aftermath, many rife with errors. Thoma said there’s also reason to believe that the unidentified man was on the street during the robbery, pretending to shoot at the bandits as they sped away. Contributed / Kandiyohi County Historical Society
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