Poetry · 1902
Rio Grande’s Last Race, and Other Verses
Rio Grande’s Last Race, and Other Verses, first published in 1902, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Introductory
- Rio Grande’s Last Race
- By the Grey Gulf-water
- With the Cattle
- The First Surveyor
- Mulga Bill’s Bicycle
- The Pearl Diver
- The City of Dreadful Thirst
- Saltbush Bill’s Gamecock
- Hay and Hell and Booligal
- A Walgett Episode
- Father Riley’s Horse
- The Scotch Engineer
- Song of the Future
- Anthony Considine
- Song of the Artesian Water
- A Disqualified Jockey’s Story
- The Road to Gundagai
- Saltbush Bill’s Second Fight
- Hard Luck
- Song of the Federation
- The Old Australian Ways
- The Ballad of the ‘Calliope’
- Do They Know
- The Passing of Gundagai
- The Wargeilah Handicap
- Any Other Time
- The Last Trump
- Tar and Feathers
- It’s Grand
- Out of Sight
- The Road to Old Man’s Town
- The Old Timer’s Steeplechase
- In the Stable
- Driver Smith
- There’s Another Blessed Horse Fell Down
- On the Trek
- The Last Parade
- With French to Kimberley
- Johnny Boer
- What Have the Cavalry Done
- Right in the Front of the Army
- That V.C
- Fed Up
- Jock!
- Santa Claus
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About the author
1864–1941 · Modern
Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson (1864–1941) was born at Narrambla, near Orange, New South Wales, and qualified and practiced as a solicitor before turning to journalism and verse, much of it published under the pen name “The Banjo” in the Sydney Bulletin. The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) made him Australia’s most popular poet; he also wrote the words to the country’s best-known folk song, “Waltzing Matilda,” the novel An Outback Marriage (1906), and covered the Boer War as a correspondent. He was appointed CBE in 1939 for services to literature and appears on the Australian ten-dollar note.
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