Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses

Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses
Author Banjo Paterson
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Bush poetry
Publisher Angus and Robertson
Publication date
1902
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 178
Preceded by The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses
Followed by Three Elephant Power and Other Stories

Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses (1902) is the second collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. It was released in hardback by Angus and Robertson in 1902, and features the poems "Rio Grande's Last Race", "Mulga Bill's Bicycle", "Saltbush Bill's Game Cock" and "Saltbush Bill's Second Fight".

The original collection includes 46 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources. Later editions added further poems.

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Critical reception

On its original publication in Australia The Brisbane Courier noted "One may always bid welcome to the rattling poems of "Banjo" Paterson, for they have in them an irresistible swing, they are singularly grippy in descriptiveness, and they are racy of the soil. The verses in the volume now to hand are racy of more than one soil, however; they give us racing, droving, and bush incidents of Australia, and they rattle out also pen and ink pictures of South Africa, and of grim war."[1]

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