Australian Desperadoes
The Incredible Story of How Australian Gangsters Terrorised California
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2017
Summary
They were the Australians who made American history. In the roaring days of the 1850s California gold rush, San Francisco was the most dangerous town in America, made so by a notorious criminal gang known as the Sydney Coves.The Coves - San Francisco’s first organised-crime gang - were Australians- men and women with criminal careers in Australia who had come to the US, mostly illegally, during the gold rush. The Coves had come not to dig for gold but to unleash a crime wave the likes of whi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143782377 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143782371 |
| Author: | Terry Smyth |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Ebury Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 452g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
Terry Smyth
Terry Smyth is an award-winning journalist, playwright, scriptwriter and songwriter. The youngest son of Irish immigrants, he was born and raised in the Hunter Valley, and is now based in Sydney. He has, in his time, worked as a builder’s labourer, steel worker, cotton mill hand, psychiatric nurse, professional musician and advertising copywriter.Terry has written and produced drama, music and comedy for ABC radio, television and the stage, and continues to write and record original music.In a 25-year career as a feature writer and columnist with Fairfax Media (on The Newcastle Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Sydney Morning Herald), he wrote extensively on historical, social and cultural subjects, and was more recently the co-founder and editor of the popular Australian history online magazine The Forgotten Times.Terry has a longstanding interest in colonial Australian history, British and Irish history, and in American history, particularly the American Civil War.
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