Book outlines lesser known bushrangers ‘reign of terror’

By David Cole
August 31 2015 - 6:30am
PISTOL: Araluen author Peter C. Smith’s book ‘The Clarke Gang: Outlawed, Outcast and Forgotten’ outlines the story of a band of Braidwood bushrangers who struck fear into the hearts of many people around Braidwood and the South Coast in the mid 1860s. Mr Smith is pictured here with the actual pistol of Pat Connell, one of the bushrangers in the Clarke gang. He obtained the pistol through a friend - Neville Locker of Adaminaby. (Photo supplied)
PISTOL: Araluen author Peter C. Smith’s book ‘The Clarke Gang: Outlawed, Outcast and Forgotten’ outlines the story of a band of Braidwood bushrangers who struck fear into the hearts of many people around Braidwood and the South Coast in the mid 1860s. Mr Smith is pictured here with the actual pistol of Pat Connell, one of the bushrangers in the Clarke gang. He obtained the pistol through a friend - Neville Locker of Adaminaby. (Photo supplied)

FORGET the Kelly gang - Australia’s worst and most troublesome bushrangers carried out a reign of terror, striking fear into the hearts of many, in an area between the NSW South Coast and Braidwood between 1865 and 1867.

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