"The Man From Snowy River" is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, in April 1890. Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Bush poets were Australian poets who wrote about Australian rural life during colonial times and about the Australian bush. ... Banjo Paterson. ... The Bulletin is a weekly magazine, which has been published in Sydney, Australia since 1880. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

The poem tells the story of a horseback pursuit to recapture the colt of a prizewinning racehorse that escaped from its paddock and is living wild with the "brumbies" (wild horses) of the mountain ranges. Eventually the brumbies descend a seemingly impassably steep slope, at which point the assembled riders give up the pursuit, except the young hero, who spurs his pony down the "terrible descent" to catch the mob.

The Films

The poem inspired two films, a 1920 silent version and a well-known 1982 version, The Man From Snowy River, with a cast including Tom Burlinson as Jim Craig (The Man), Kirk Douglas as Harrison, the owner of the property, Jack Thompson as Clancy of the Overflow, and Sigrid Thornton as Jessica Harrison, the daughter of the owner of the property. The story fleshes out the story to identify the young hero as a worker on a nearby squatter's property and includes a romance with Jessica (Sigrid Thornton). Bruce Rowland composed the music for the 1982 version, a soundtrack that became one of the most critically acclaimed in the history of motion pictures. NBC Sports uses some of the exact music from the soundtrack for their coverage of The PLAYERS Championship. Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tom Burlinson is an Australian actor. ... Kirk Douglas in Champion Kirk Douglas (born December 9, 1916) is an American actor. ... There are two notable Jack Thompsons at Wikipedia. ... Clancy of The Overflow is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on December 21, 1889. ... Sigrid Thornton (born 12 February 1959) is an Australian actress who is noted for her roles in the films The Man from Snowy River (1982) and Return to Snowy River (1988) and on the stage in a early 2000s production of The Blue Room. ... This article is about occupying land without permission. ... Bruce Rowland is a well-known Australian composer. ... NBC Sports is a division of the National Broadcasting Company, responsible for the televising of many sports events on the network. ... THE PLAYERS Championship is a prestigious annual golf tournament for professional male golfers which takes place every March on the PGA TOUR. The event was founded in 1974 as the Tournament Players Championship, played at Sawgrass Country Clubs Oceanside Course (a combination of the East and West 9-hole...

A 1988 sequel, The Man From Snowy River II (Return to Snowy River), departed even further from the original poem. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Television Series

A television series extremely loosely based on the concept ("Snowy River: The McGregor Saga") was also produced in the 1990s. The television series concentrated on the adventures of Andrew Clarke as Matt McGregor (The Man), and his family. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... Andrew Clarke (born 1954) in Adelaide, South Australia, is an actor who appeared in the television series Snowy River: The McGregor Saga as Matt McGregor (as The Man), and also in many other television programs including Anzacs and Halifax f. ...

The Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony

The poem was also commemorated at the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games by Steve Jefferys, the lone rider who cracked the stockwhip and whose Australian Stock Horse "Ammo" reared to begin the ceremony. Steve Jefferys and Ammo were then followed by another 120 Stock Horses and their riders during The Man From Snowy River segment, which was performed to a special Olympics version of the soundtrack music for the 1982 film, by Australian composter Bruce Rowland, the composer of the music for both The Man From Snowy River film and its sequel The Man From Snowy River II (Return to Snowy River). The creative team behind the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony were David Atkins and Ignatius Jones. 2000 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Steve Jefferys was the lone rider in the Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony. ... A whip is a cord or strap, usually with a stiff handle, used for delivering blows to human beings or animals as a means of control or punishment or torture. ... The Australian Stock Horse (or Stockhorse), has been especially bred for Australian climatic conditions. ... Bruce Rowland is a well-known Australian composer. ... David Atkins is an Australian Performing arts actor and dancer. ... Ignatius Jones is an Australian actor. ...

The special theme can be heard here: [1]

Australian Royal Agricultural Shows

The poem has also been commemorated, by an enactment of "The Man From Snowy River" at various Australian Royal Agricultural Shows, including the Sydney Royal Easter Show and the Brisbane Exhibition. The Sydney Royal Easter Show (RES) in Sydney, Australia, (also known as the Royal Easter Show or simply the Sydney Royal) is an annual show held over two weeks around Easter. ... The Brisbane Exhibition (more commonly known as the Ekka) is an annual agricultural and cultural show organised by the Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland (RNA). ...

The Musical

A very popular musical theatre production, The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular, which was also based on the play, toured Australian capital cities twice during 2002. The production was filmed at the Boondall Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, during its second run in October, 2002. The cast included Martin Crewes as Jim Ryan (The Man), Bud Tingwell as John Conroy, the owner of the property, Georgie Parker as Kate, John Conroy's daughter, Steve Bisley as Banjo Paterson, Lee Kernaghan as the Balladeer, and also Steve Jefferys as the Breaker (Steve Jefferys and his Stock Horse Ammo also reprised their entrance at the beginning of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony during the The Man From Snowy River: Arena Spectacular). Australia's internationally renowned whipcracking expert John Brady demonstrated his expertise with both stockwhips and ropes, as well as playing the part of Saltbush Bill within the show. Bruce Rowland composed the soundtrack for the live show, as well as using some of the music which he had already written for the 1982 film. Country music songwriters for the live show were Lee Kernaghan and Garth Porter. Trick horse riding stunts in the show were performed by Zelie Thompson and Deborah Brennan as well as by other trick riders. The creative team for the show were David Atkins (who was the co-creator, director and executive producer), Ignatius Jones (who was co-writer and director), and Kevin Jacobsen (who was the executive producer). Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Boondall Entertertainment Centre, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is the home base for the Brisbane Bullets National Basketball League (NBL) Team. ... Brisbane by night Brisbane is the capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. ... Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ... Martin Crewes (born in 1968 in London, England), is principally a performing arts actor. ... Charles Bud Tingwell (born January 3, 1923 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), is an Australian film and theatre actor. ... Georgina Parker (born December 16, 1964) in Sydney, New South Wales. ... Steve Bisley (born 1951 at Lake Munmorah, New South Wales, Australia), is a well-known Australian actor, who attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art. ... Lee Kernaghan is an Australian Country music songwriter. ... Steve Jefferys was the lone rider in the Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony. ... John Brady is an internationally renowned Australian expert whipcracker. ... A whip is a cord or strap, usually with a stiff handle, used for delivering blows to human beings or animals as a means of control or punishment or torture. ... Bruce Rowland is a well-known Australian composer. ... Country music, formerly called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ... Lee Kernaghan is an Australian Country music songwriter. ... Garth Porter is a Country music songwriter who co-wrote some of the songs, with Lee Kernaghan, for the live Musical theatre production The Man From Snowy River: Arena Spectacular. ... Trick riding is a form of dangerous stunt horse riding. ... horse, see Horse (disambiguation). ... A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in theatre or cinema. ... Zelie Thompson is an Australian trick rider and stuntwoman who trains her own horses for the stunts. ... David Atkins is an Australian Performing arts actor and dancer. ... Ignatius Jones is an Australian actor. ... Kevin Jacobsen is a well-known prominent Australian entertainment entrepreneur. ...

The River and 'The Man'

The Snowy River is indeed a real river, with its headwaters in the highest section of the Great Dividing Range near the easternmost part of the border between New South Wales and Victoria. Corryong, a small town on the western side of the range, claims stockman Jack Riley as the inspiration for the character, and like many other towns in the region uses the image of the character as part of the marketing to tourists. The Snowy River is a major river in south-eastern Australia. ... The Great Divide runs around the entire eastern and south-eastern edge of Australia The Great Dividing Range (a. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Nickname: Garden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ... Corryong is a small town in Victoria, Australia. ... Stockmen are the Australian equivalent of North American cowboys. ... Jack Riley (December 30, 1935—) is a comedic actor probably most recognizable as the irrascible character Elliot Carlin from Bob Newharts first TV sitcom, The Bob Newhart Show. ...

There is a possibility that another exceptional and fearless rider, Charlie McKeahnie, who was born in 1868 might have been the inspiration for the poem, because of a dangerous riding feat in the Snowy River region in 1885, in which Charlie McKeahnie took part when he was only 17 years of age. 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

The historical context of the poem

The poem was written at a time in the 1880s and 1890s when Australia was developing a distinct identity as a nation. Though Australia was still a set of independent colonies under the final authority of Britain, and had not yet trod the path of nationhood, there was a distinct feeling that Australians needed to be united and become as one. Poems like "The Man from Snowy River" suggested to the many Australians at the time who read The Bulletin magazine of Sydney, that they shared a unique land and that the characters and heroes who inhabited this land had so much in common. Australians from all walks of life, be they from the country or the city, looked to the bush for their mythology and heroic characters. They saw in the Man from Snowy River a hero whose bravery, adaptability and risk-taking could epitomise a new nation in the south. This new nation emerged as the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. In philosophy, it is important to distinguish between two senses of identity, qualitative identity and numerical identity. ... For publications of this name, see also Nation (disambiguation) The most popular modern ethical and philosophical doctrines state that all humans are divided into groups called nations. ... This article refers to a colony in politics and history. ... Mythology is the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and that feature a specific religious or belief system. ... This article is about the type of character. ... Sir Galahad, a hero of Arthurian legend In many myths and folk tales, a hero is a man or woman (the latter often called a heroine), traditionally the protagonist of a story, legend or saga, who commonly possesses abilities or character far greater than that of a typical person, which...

External links

• The Man from Snowy River at Project Gutenberg

• The Man From Snowy River - the Poem

• The Man From Snowy River - movie webpages

• Snowy River: The McGregor Saga - television series webpages

• The Man From Snowy River Display

• Who Really was the Man From Snowy River

• Bundara Days - Who was the Man from Snowy River?

• The Man From Snowy River Arena Spectacular