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Hand-drawn map over an aerial photograph showing Sandy Creek, Bigga Station, the Crooked Billet Hotel, the Benyons' property, Hillcreston, Grabine Road, Reid Flat Road and Bigga town today, with a dotted line marking a horseback route between Bigga and the Benyon property.
The Benyon property and Bigga in 1861Brian and James Peisley
Black and white photograph of a colonial court house with a columned portico, tall chimneys and a white picket fence, set back from a wide unmade street.
The old court house at BathurstBrian and James Peisley
Pencil illustration of a bald, moustached man in a neckerchief, his wrists held, flanked by uniformed police. Speech bubbles read Johnny, what will it be? and It's a swinger.
The gaol yard, an illustrationBrian and James Peisley
Sepia illustration of a bald, moustached man galloping on horseback through dust, with a second rider behind him.
The rider, an illustrationBrian and James Peisley
Book One cover: a wanted notice with a portrait of a man holding two revolvers, reading Wanted: Dead or Alive, £100 Reward, John (Jack) Peisley, Notorious Bushranger, by the New South Wales Mounted Police.
Book One cover, the wanted noticeBrian and James Peisley
Book Two cover: a quill resting on a bundle of tied letters beside an inkwell.
Book Two cover, the quillBrian and James Peisley
Launch poster headed A Man They Could Hang, But Not Silence, showing both book covers, a gallows, a Cockatoo Island Prison convict records sheet, a Bathurst Free Press notice of the Peisley Gang reward proclamation, and the words Imminent Release, Brian & James Peisley, 2026.
The launch poster2026 · Brian and James Peisley
Wide photograph of a brick court house with tall chimneys and lower buildings, with the high walls of the gaol behind, beside a broad dirt road planted with young trees.
Old Court House, Watch House and Gaol, Bathurst1871 · State Library of New South Wales, Holtermann Collection
Photograph of a columned court house with tall chimneys and a picket fence, with a handwritten note along the foot of the print.
Old Court House at BathurstAbout 1870 · NSW State Archives
Pale drawing of Cockatoo Island seen low across the water, its buildings along the top of the island, with a small boat in front.
Cockatoo IslandAbout 1864 · State Library of New South Wales
Watercolour of the Sofala goldfield: a river in the foreground and dug-over ground with scattered tents below a low hill.
Sofala Gold Field, 18521852 · State Library of New South Wales, PXD 10/5
Engraving of steep hills above a creek at Ophir, with tents and diggers along the bank.
Gold diggings at Ophir1853 · Samuel Sidney, The Three Colonies of Australia (1853)