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Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses (1902) is the second collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. [1] It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1902, and features the poems "Rio Grande's Last Race", "Mulga Bill's Bicycle", "Saltbush Bill's Game Cock" and "Saltbush Bill's Second Fight".
Paterson as a baby with his nanny, Wiradjuri girl Fanny Hopkins, mid-1860s Andrew Barton Paterson was born on 17 February 1864 at the property "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire, and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton, [1] related to the future first prime minister of Australia, Edmund Barton. [3]
Rio Grande's Last Race is a racing poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in the London Sketch magazine on 16 December 1896. [ 1 ] It was later published as the title poem for Paterson's second poetry collection, Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses , in 1902.
A Bush Christening is a humorous poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson.It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 16 December 1893 (under its original title of "The Christening of Maginnis Magee"), [1] the Christmas issue of that publication. [2]
Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses by Banjo Paterson (1917) The Drovers edited by Keith Willey (1982) Song of the Pen, A. B. (Banjo) Paterson : Complete Works 1901-1941 edited by Rosamund Campbell and Philippa Harvie (1983) A Vision Splendid : The Complete Poetry of A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson (1990) The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson (1992)
The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular was a musical theatre production based on Banjo Paterson's poem The Man from Snowy River.The production was filmed at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, during October 2002, and was released on DVD and VHS in Australia on 26 January 2003 (Australia Day).
Saltbush Bill is again droving his sheep when he happens "on Take 'Em Down, the station of Rooster Hall." Rooster Hall is a follower of cockfighting and Bill challenges him to a contest: his Australian bird against Hall's, a "clipt and a shaven cock, the pride of his English Game".
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses (1895) is the first collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson.It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1895, and features the poet's widely anthologised poems "The Man from Snowy River", "Clancy of the Overflow", "Saltbush Bill" and "The Man from Ironbark".