The Birth of a Bushranger

The Bushranger...the outlaw of the Australian Bush. The young men of the late 19th century, living outside the law, who found adventure on the back of a fast horse; an adventure fraught with danger as they were pursued by the police - always with the likelihood of a bullet to end their latest escapade, or an appointment with the hangman.
Who were the young men who took to the bush to follow that dangerous profession? Why did they follow that road? Were they naturally bad, or did something happen which forced them into a life of constant danger? How did they survive when all were turned against them? Did they receive help from otherwise law-abiding folk who were sympathetic to their cause?
This is the story of one of them.