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'Mistaken identity haunted Joseph Windred. It saw him wrongly convicted on two continents and almost cost him his life. But every time fate knocked him down, Joe got up, and came back stronger. His fighting spirit would make him a hero, and see him strike it rich.
'Little did the people of Orange NSW know when they twice elected Joseph Windred their mayor that this upstanding Windsor-born businessman, colonial hero and founder of their local jockey club had, in chains, helped build the San Quentin Penitentiary in San Francisco during the California gold rush, only to make a thrilling escape back to Australia. And that, technically, Joe was still a fugitive from American justice. There was a lot about Joe people didn't know.
'In an amazing life, Joe also overcame physical disability to become a champion boxer, chased down a bushranger on his racehorse, saved the lives of children on a runaway dray, almost drowned trying to save a woman in a flooded creek, and struck gold near Bathurst.
'Joe Windred's courage in the face of repeated, extraordinary and life-changing adversity marks him as one of the most inspiring figures in the history of ordinary Australians.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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They Should Make a Movie of That : Mistaken Identity : The Trials of Joe Windred
2016
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 5 April 2016; -
Behind the Disguise of History
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 February 2013; (p. 35)
— Review of Eugenia : A True Story of Adversity, Tragedy, Crime and Courage 2012 single work biography ; Mistaken Identity : The Trials of Joe Windred 2012 single work biography -
Extraordinary Escapes from Double Trouble
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 September 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of Mistaken Identity : The Trials of Joe Windred 2012 single work biography
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Extraordinary Escapes from Double Trouble
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 1 September 2012; (p. 22)
— Review of Mistaken Identity : The Trials of Joe Windred 2012 single work biography -
Behind the Disguise of History
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 February 2013; (p. 35)
— Review of Eugenia : A True Story of Adversity, Tragedy, Crime and Courage 2012 single work biography ; Mistaken Identity : The Trials of Joe Windred 2012 single work biography -
They Should Make a Movie of That : Mistaken Identity : The Trials of Joe Windred
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 5 April 2016;
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cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
- New South Wales,
- 1840s
- 1859