Coogan’s gully: A young person’s guide to bushranging, ecology & witchcraft

A history of the town of Coogan’s Gully, New South Wales, Australia, whose first settler, Daniel Coogan, was an active bushranger who died young of hanging and whose daughter, Widow McClosky, was a witch whose exploits included ridding the town of the law for all time.

“No history of the Gully could be undertaken without including Bold Dan Coogan’s bushranging career, nor would it be possible to ignore that of his daughter, the arch-witch Widow McClosky, to whom we owe the present happy state of affairs at Coogan’s Gully, which can boast more ecology to the square inch than any township in our fair country.”