Bushrangers chose to be bushrangers for a number of reasons. In some cases, they were people who could not get a job, so they turned to crime. Sometimes they were people who simply felt like...
A bushranger was an outlaw from Australia's colonial and goldrush times. They used the cover of the Australian bush, which was dense and therefore easy for them to hide in, to ambush travellers or...
Bushranger was the Australian term coined for those who were initially absconded convicts who 'ranged in the bush' (comparatively few convicts were held in prison - the colony was generally an 'open...
Ben Hall was a successful grazier, and it is unknown why he turned to bushranging. There was an incident when he was falsely accused and arrested for robbery, then acquitted. When he returned to his...