To A. B. Paterson, son of a dispossessed squatter, writing from a city office, the bushmen with their horses and simple skills were the backbone of Australia.
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Bushman
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aboriginalaborigineancientantediluviananthropoidape-manautochthonbackwoodsmanblackblack manboybriar-hopperbronze age manbrush apecaucasian
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languagemanman of oldmissing linkmountain manmountaineernegroniggerorientalpalefacepinypreadamiteprehistoric manprehumanprimateprimitiveprotohumanpygmyred manredneck
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Its^([the Bulletin's]) writers shaped ‘a group myth about Australians and their destiny’; in the absence of conventional heroes, visiting the past to claim the bushman as the first ‘Australian’, the anti-hero in the struggles against empire.
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Later, historian Russel Ward (1958) famously identified the outback bushman as the “typical” Australian – a rugged individualist, courageous and loyal to his mates.
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