‘Black Douglas’: a not so dastardly bushranger?
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The Importance of Feeling True to Minors on the Diggings
Douglas was accused of killing a woman in the Evoker district. But police and government reports did not attribute him to the crime. The story served a social purpose for minors on the gold diggings, he says. "A lot of them felt like their world had been turned upside down"
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