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James MacPherson, bushranger best known as the “Wild Scotchman”, was born in Inverness-shire, Scotland, eldest of the eight children.
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James MacPherson was 13 when his parents brought their family of ten children from Scotland.They landed in Brisbane in 1855.
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He learnt carpentry in 1860.
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A warrant had been issued for his arrest in New South Wales.
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He began with sticking up Wills' Hotel on the Houghton River, and then went to New South Wales, promising to fight a duel with the head of the police force, Sir Frederick Pottinger.
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The unthinkable happened in 1866, when he was captured and sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment, but he was released after serving only eight years.
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Once again he became James Alpin Macpherson, and worked as a stockman and from 1874 , he never went against the law.
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He married Elizabeth Hoszfeld the seventeen year old daughter of a German settler from Isisford.
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He died from a horse riding accident.
