Bushrangers: Real or fake?

In Those Days

Tim Carruthers returns to hear more about our sailor's journey from Melbourne to the Goldfields. The sailor reaches the Black Forest and comes across a notorious "bushranger", Black Douglas.

We also hear the true story of Tim's star-turn in Castlemaine North's production of Captain Midnite the musical.

Trove
'A Sailor's Trip from Melbourne to Mount Alexander', The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 May 1852
'Death of a Notorious Bushranger', The Age, 17 May 1892
'Supreme Court Wednesday April 14th Criminal Sittings', The Argus, 15 April 1852
'At the Primary School', Western Herald, 12 July 1968
'Escape of "Moondyne Joe", The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Times, 15 March 1867
'The Starlight Story', The Kalgoorlie Miner, 27 November 1900

Other
'The Treacherous Black Forest, Victoria', Goldfields Guide
'Gold Rushes', National Museum of Australia
'Gold Rush Brings More People to Victoria', Deadly Story
'A black Ned Kelly', by Tom Almeroth-Williams
'Boundary Crossers', by Meg Foster, UNSW Press
'The 'Other' Bushrangers', by Meg Foster, UNSW
Sir James Douglas (aka Black Douglas), Britannica
'The Wild Colonial Boy', Planet Slade
'Captain Melville', Goldfields Guide
'Midnite' Teachers Notes, Reading Australia
Randolph Stow, Text Publishing
Richard Tulloch, Penguin
Kevin Harrington, Imdb
Richard Dillane, Imdb
'From Bavaria to Ballarat: Wild Times with Lola Montez', by Andrew McConville, State Library Victoria
'Aye-aye Captain: The Captains of Bushranging', A Guide to Australian Bushranging
The Grave of Midnight, Aussie Towns
'History of Moondyne Joe', Moondyne Festival
'The Conman behind Captain Starlight', Nightlife ABC