Jimmy Governor (book)

{{Short description|1959 Australian book by Frank Clune}}

{{Use Australian English|date=April 2024}}

Jimmy Governor is a 1959 Australian book by Frank Clune about Jimmy Governor.

Clune had written about Governor as early as 1940 but this was the first full-length work on the outlaw.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234582499 |title=ANOTHER RIPARIAN ROAMING |newspaper=Smith's Weekly |volume=XXII |issue=23 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 August 1940 |accessdate=2 April 2024 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The book was an inspiration for The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.Julian Croft, 'Clune, Francis Patrick (Frank) (1893–1971)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clune-francis-patrick-frank-9769/text17263, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 2 April 2024.{{Citation

| title=Bulletin COVER STORY INSIDE THE WORLD OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH

| journal=The Bulletin

| date=30 May 1978

| location=Sydney, N.S.W

| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1739021549

| id=nla.obj-1739021549

| access-date=2 April 2024

| via=Trove

}}{{cite news|title=A century on a life still unfolds|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=18 January 2001|page=16}}

The book was re-published in 1978.