Now a second volume of Bush Ballads and Yarns in the same style, has been compiled by Jack – Bronco Harry’s Last Ride. Bush Poetry Awards Won by Jack Drake • Bush Poet of the Year, 2001. The Asthma Foundation of NSW • Winner, Original Performance, National Bush Poetry Championship. Brisbane EKKA 2001 • The Tenterfield Oracles of the Bush, Written 1999, Performance 2000 & 2001 • Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth, Finalist with The Cattle Dog’s Revenge CD, 2002 • Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth, Finalist with Dinkum Poetry CD, 2003 • Golden Gumleaf Trophy at the Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth,2004 for • best, Original Verse Book of the Year with The Cattle Dog’s Revenge Bush Ballads and • Yarns published by CQUPress. Second publication by Boolarong Press. • Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth. Finalist with Bronco Harry’s Last Ride CD, 2006 • Golden Gumleaf Trophy at the Australian Bush Laureate Award at Tamworth for Best • Album of the year 2011 with his CD Australian Bush Poetry Classics The Australian bushman’s sense of humour is legendary: dry, laconic and with a good bite. Jack Drake is one of Australia’s best writers and reciters of this comic bush verse. But he also has a great sense of the farcical and the crazy tall story. These are more ballads and yarns you’ll be wanting to recite in the evenings on the verandah. Again, we guarantee a belly-full of laughs or your money back.

Queensland’s Frontier Wars is an attempt to document the known confrontations between either white settlers or white and native police and First Nations people where deaths were reported. It is now an accepted premise that these confrontations were wars to gain access to the land, because, if not wars, then it was mass murder. No one in Queensland was charged with the murder of First Nations during these confrontations. The book shows the invasion from New South Wales into southern Queensland and the advances from the sea in central and north Queensland. The ‘dispersement’ of the First Nations people from their land was violent and efficient using far superior weaponry. This book adds significantly to the true and uncomfortable history of Queensland.

Presenting a fascinating insider's view of U.S.A.F. special operations, this volume brings to life the critical contributions these forces have made to the exercise of air & space power. Focusing in particular on the period between the Korean War & the Indochina wars of 1950-1979, the accounts of numerous missions are profusely illustrated with photos & maps. Includes a discussion of AF operations in Europe during WWII, as well as profiles of Air Commandos who performed above & beyond the call of duty. Reflects on the need for financial & political support for restoration of the forces. Bibliography. Extensive photos & maps. Charts & tables.

In this volume of The Wild West, Drake tells stories about the squattocracy, the cattle kings and the land barons; mounted police, sheriffs and posses in the pursuit of their elusive prey; bushrangers and outlaws and why they are so loved in popular fantasy; stockmen, ringers and cowboys; early white settlement and both friendly and hostile contact with indigenous peoples; and six shooters, gun slingers, snider rifles and infamous shoutouts.

A humorous fictional account of a visit to the World's Columbian exposition illustrated with actual photographs and sketches of the buildings, exhibits, and fairgrounds.

Based on a pocket diary from the Spanish-American War, this tough-as-nails 1899 memoir abounds in patriotic valor and launched the future President into the American consciousness.