VAN DIEMEN'S LAND'S MOST FEARED BUSHRANGERS

History Reconstructed

Van Diemen's Land in the early 1800s was the harshest penal colony in the British Empire — and it bred the most feared bushrangers Australia had ever seen. This is the story of two men who terrorised the colony in succession. John Whitehead, the ruthless leader of a bushranging gang that defied the