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The Man from Snowy River

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2023
Entity authorityQ1301267 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Man from Snowy River may refer to:

"The Man from Snowy River" (poem), an 1890 Australian poem by Banjo Paterson.

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“The Man from Snowy River” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Snowy, River and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1890—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Snowy, River and Wikimedia.
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“The Man from Snowy River” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Snowy, River and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q1301267. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1890.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Man from Snowy River” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.