An Outlaw's Journal

Joe was a widow's teenage son with dreams of something better than life on a dairy farm.

Ah Nam was a miner with a taste for booze, women, gambling and fighting.

By a twist of fate their paths would cross and Joe's life would never be the same again.



Georgina Stones shines a light on a forgotten chapter in the early life of one of Australia's most infamous outlaws and brings to light some of the forgotten denizens of Beechworth, with original illustrations by Aidan Phelan, as well as essays, contemporary images and articles.