The Boss of Marabilla single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1895... 1895 The Boss of Marabilla
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Set in Arizona and on an Australian station. A US rancher reverts to his horse-stealing ways when he discovers his wife loves another. Though she is faithful he leaves her and is eventually believed killed in crossing a river to evade a posse - shooting the sherrif on the way. He settles in Victoria with his profits but accidentally meets his former wife - now married to her true lover - and his child one day. He arranges money for her anonymously and dies rescuing her and the baby from a bushfire. Interesting for its US/Australia connections. US outlaw seeking anonymity and respectability in Australia. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 31 no. 364 September 1895 Z1049538 1895 periodical issue 1895 pg. 721-723
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