The hunt is on in America for information about the Australian bushranger Frank Gardiner, mastermind of a major gold robbery in colonial New South Wales .
After reading a story headed DRAMATIC ARREST OF NOTORIOUS BUSHRANGER , TERRIBLE DEATH OF RUNAWAY KITTY in Little Darwin , which quoted Magnetic Island bushranger researcher , filmmaker , composer and musician , Gary Hunn , a Victorian man rang him to discuss Gardiner.
The man said he was going to America soon to undergo a six month Luthier course in guitar making in Washington State and intended following up the amazing life of Gardiner in the USA , after he was deported from Australia, following imprisonment in NSW , and told never to come back .
Gardiner ran the Twilight Star saloon on the wild Barbary Coast area of San Francisco . Who should front the bar one day but the very NSW police officer who had arrested Gardiner who with his paramour " were running a wayside store catering for passing prospectors at Apis Creek, north of Rockhampton, Queensland , under the names Mr and Mrs Charles .
Earlier this year , Gary led a film crew to Apis Creek and inspected the store site , even brought back from a bottle dump nearby for this blog part of a bottle which could have actually been handled by the highwayman .
Earlier this year , Gary led a film crew to Apis Creek and inspected the store site , even brought back from a bottle dump nearby for this blog part of a bottle which could have actually been handled by the highwayman .
PREMATURE REPORT OF DEATH
The Australian Dictionary of Biography contains very little information about the amazing life of Gardiner in America where he mixed with famous gunslingers such as Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson .
Hunn's extensive research has covered the incredible suggestion that two of Gardiner's sons may have come to Australia and dug up part of the gold stolen and hidden away in the great 1862 escort robbery , which consisted of 2700 ounces of gold and 3700 pounds in cash , equivalent today to $12million.
One account claimed Gardiner had been shot dead in a dive not long after arriving in America . However , it is said he married the "rich " widow of a sheriff and is buried in Colorado.
Gary Hunn , sporting a Mount Rushmore T-shirt , has a close association with America and through his music was made a roving honorary ambassador for South Dakota . A great American history buff , he is compiling a massive coverage of Australia's first 100 years and the people and events which shaped it, especially the convicts and bushrangers who bucked the oppressive systems overseas and in the Australian colonies .
UPCOMING : Latest inside information from Hunn re financial backing for Captain Moonlite musical and other major bushranger revelations.
