Like Henry Lawson Paterson wrote stories about the lives of people in the outback, the bush country of Australia. Paterson’s work always featured something that was close to Banjo, the Bush. Now, one hundred and fifty years on from his birth, his legacy as a poet and author is still strong even outside of Australia! Andrew (Banjo) Paterson (1864 to 1941-New South Wales, Australia) is best remembered as the author of the unofficial Australia national anthem, Waltzing Matilda. Banjo Paterson was born at the property "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton, related to the future first Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton.

PATERSON, John Donald (Banjo). Banjo Paterson was married to Alice Emily Walker on April 8, 1903.

There’s a hundred years of history and a hundred before that All gathered in the thinkin’ goin’ on beneath his hat.

Banjo Paterson died on February 5, 1941. Every coil in his lasso’s been thrown a million times Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (February 17, 1864 – February 5, 1941) was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. Banjo Paterson (1864 to 1917, New South Wales, Australia) is a great chronicler of life in the Australian outback (or bush country).

Decades after his death, …

Passed away in his 95th year. Together, they had two children: Grace and Hugh Paterson. Sign and view the Guest Book, leave condolences or send flowers. Growing up in the bush sparked many ideas for Paterson to write stories, songs and poems about.

Last year I did a series of posts on short stories by Australian Bush Writers. Banjo Paterson married Alice Walker.

Legacy. It tells the story of Matt McGregor, one of the richest and most influential man in town and a widower father of three children.

A.B. "Banjo" Paterson was passionately nationalistic, popular among many Australians in a fledgling country searching for its own identity apart from Britain. The Gladesville cottage Rockend, where Paterson lived in the 1870s and 1880s.

Based on Banjo Paterson's poem "Man From Snowy River, " this series takes place in a small town set in the mountains near Melbourne during the late 19th century.

A year later, she gave birth to a little girl, Grace.

Banjo Paterson died in 1941 at the age of 76. LEGACY OF THE RODEO MAN by Baxter Black. The Man From Snowy River is a rhyming poem written in verse that contains lots of examples of imagery, metaphors and similes. Death. And back behind his eyeballs and pumpin’ through his veins Is the ghost of every cowboy that ever held the reins. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood. He was 76 years old when he passed away. Just two short years after that, Paterson’s legacy was … Husband of Marjorie, Father of Mark, Roger and Ross. The cause of his death was a heart attack.