Australian Desperadoes

Author : Terry Smyth
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 014378238X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Desperadoes written by Terry Smyth and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 which America had never seen. Robbery, murder, arson and extortion were the Coves' stock-in-trade, and it was said that the leader of the gang, Jim Stewart, had killed more men than any man in California. The gang's base, in the waterfront district, came to be known as Sydney Town. The area was a no-go zone for police - many of whom were in Stewart's pocket anyway - so, just as Capone would one day rule Chicago, the Coves ruled San Francisco. And more than once, just to make sure there was no doubt that Frisco was their town, they burnt it down. The Coves were hated and feared by the respectable citizens of San Francisco - who derisively called them 'Sydney Ducks' but never to their faces - and, realising that the forces of the law could not, or would not, take them on, decided lynch law was the only solution, and formed a vigilante group. The streets of San Francisco became a battlefield as the Coves and the vigilantes fought for control of the city, with gunfights and lynchings almost daily spectacles as the police stood idly by. Jim Stewart was arrested in Sacramento for killing a sheriff, but escaped to be involved in one the most celebrated cases of mistaken identity in the annals of American crime. When the smoke cleared, the Coves' reign of terror was over. Some were strung up from storefronts in the street, some fell in a deadly gunfight with Jonathan R. Davis, one of the fastest guns in the west, others escaped capture and returned to Australia. The story of the Sydney Coves is little-known, fascinating and well worth telling.

Author : Terry Smyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525260209
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Desperadoes written by Terry Smyth and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 which America had never seen. Robbery, murder, arson and extortion were the Coves' stock-in-trade, and it was said that the leader of the gang, Jim Stuart, had killed more men than any man in California. The gang's base, in the waterfront district, came to be known as Sydney Town. The area was a no-go zone for police - many of whom were in Stuart's pocket anyway - so, just as Capone would one day rule Chicago, the Coves ruled San Francisco. And more than once, just to make sure there was no doubt that Frisco was their town, they burnt it down. The Coves were hated and feared by the respectable citizens of San Francisco - who derisively called them 'Sydney Ducks' but never to their faces - and, realising that the forces of the law could not, or would not, take them on, decided lynch law was the only solution, and formed a vigilante group. The streets of San Francisco became a battlefield as the Coves and the vigilantes fought for control of the city, with gunfights and lynchings almost daily spectacles as the police stood idly by. Jim Stewart was arrested in Sacramento for killing a sheriff, but escaped to be involved in one the most celebrated cases of mistaken identity in the annals of American crime. When the smoke cleared, the Coves' reign of terror was over. Some were strung up from storefronts in the street, some fell in a deadly gunfight with Jonathan R. Davis, one of the fastest guns in the west, others escaped capture and returned to Australia. The story of the Sydney Coves is little-known, fascinating and well worth telling.

Author : Terry Smyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369315212
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Desperadoes (16pt Large Print Edition) written by Terry Smyth and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 which America had never seen. Robbery, murder, arson and extortion were the Coves' stock-in-trade, and it was said that the leader of the gang, Jim Stuart, had killed more men than any man in California. The gang's base, in the waterfront district, came to be known as Sydney Town. The area was a no-go zone for police - many of whom were in Stuart's pocket anyway - so, just as Capone would one day rule Chicago, the Coves ruled San Francisco. And more than once, just to make sure there was no doubt that Frisco was their town, they burnt it down. The Coves were hated and feared by the respectable citizens of San Francisco - who derisively called them 'Sydney Ducks' but never to their faces - and, realising that the forces of the law could not, or would not, take them on, decided lynch law was the only solution, and formed a vigilante group. The streets of San Francisco became a battlefield as the Coves and the vigilantes fought for control of the city, with gunfights and lynchings almost daily spectacles as the police stood idly by. Jim Stewart was arrested in Sacramento for killing a sheriff, but escaped to be involved in one the most celebrated cases of mistaken identity in the annals of American crime. When the smoke cleared, the Coves' reign of terror was over. Some were strung up from storefronts in the street, some fell in a deadly gunfight with Jonathan R. Davis, one of the fastest guns in the west, others escaped capture and returned to Australia. The story of the Sydney Coves is little-known, fascinating and well worth telling.

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884995194
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Desperadoes written by William B. Secrest and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early outlaws tell their own raw tales of holdups, shootouts, and desperate flights from the law. Witness the cruel confessions of California bandits during the opening days of the Gold Rush, stage robbers, and California highwaymen. These tales of harrowing and sometimes hilarious antics are accompanied by many rare photographs.

Author : John Bunyan McCure
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in England and Australia written by John Bunyan McCure and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Bennett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
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Download or read book The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation written by Samuel Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Llewellyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141319810
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Desperado Darlings written by Sam Llewellyn and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beach of the Thousand Palms beckons with all its tropical splendour, but first the Darlings must sail past the Republic of Nananagua. A hot, smelly dictatorship, with a secret police force of nannies, surrounded by sharks. Sounds like a horrible place to run aground? But the Darlings, of course, are not daunted in the least.

Author : Samuel BENNETT (of Sydney.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation. [With Illustrations.] written by Samuel BENNETT (of Sydney.) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Quinton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book The Strange Adventures of Captain Quinton written by Robert Quinton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Harris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book Settlers and Convicts; Or, Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods written by Alexander Harris and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few references to early contact.