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Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses

A. B. "Banjo" Paterson (1864–1941)

Poetry · first published 1902 · Sydney: Angus & Robertson

Paterson's second collection of ballads, racing yarns and bush verse.

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About 24,098 words · roughly 1.7 hours of reading (short) · 8 sections online · In: Bush poetry

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In Australia

A. B. "Banjo" Paterson (author) died in 1941. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1991. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

In the United States

First published in 1902. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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rights.json, checked 2026-10-19. Death dates: A. B. "Banjo" Paterson (Wikidata, catalogue). First publication: reference.

Contents

  1. RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE AND OTHER VERSES
  2. by A. B. Paterson
  3. Original 1902 Sydney edition
  4. Contents with First Lines:
  5. RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE AND OTHER VERSES
  6. Rio Grande's Last Race
  7. By the Grey Gulf-water
  8. With the Cattle
  9. Mulga Bill's Bicycle
  10. The Pearl Diver
  11. The City of Dreadful Thirst
  12. Saltbush Bill's Gamecock
  13. Hay and Hell and Booligal
  14. A Walgett Episode
  15. Father Riley's Horse
  16. The Scotch Engineer
  17. Song of the Future
  18. Anthony Considine
  19. Song of the Artesian Water
  20. A Disqualified Jockey's Story
  21. The Road to Gundagai
  22. Saltbush Bill's Second Fight
  23. Hard Luck
  24. Song of the Federation
  25. The Old Australian Ways
  26. The Ballad of the 'Calliope'
  27. Do They Know
  28. The Passing of Gundagai
  29. The Wargeilah Handicap
  30. Any Other Time
  31. The Last Trump
  32. Tar and Feathers
  33. It's Grand
  34. Out of Sight
  35. The Road to Old Man's Town
  36. The Old Timer's Steeplechase
  37. In the Stable
  38. "He Giveth His Beloved Sleep"
  39. Driver Smith
  40. There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down
  41. On the Trek
  42. The Last Parade
  43. With French to Kimberley
  44. Johnny Boer
  45. What Have the Cavalry Done
  46. Right in the Front of the Army
  47. That V.C.
  48. Fed Up
  49. Jock!
  50. Santa Claus
  51. From a section of Advertisements, 1909.
  52. THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER,
  53. RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE, AND OTHER VERSES.
  54. Biographical Note:

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