Articles from newspapers covering the districts where bushrangers operated were often reprinted across the colony and beyond, indicating a high level of interest in the subject.

[2] In the late 1880s Charles White’s "lengthy series of historical sketches", under the title 'Early Australian History', began to be published in the Bathurst Free Press.

Described as articles "bearing upon the work of Australian colonisation and convict life in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land", the publishing project was locally advertised, including in the rival newspaper Bathurst Post.

[10] In 1889 Parts I and II of his 'Early Australia History' were released in book form as Convict Life in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, printed in the White brothers' newspaper office at Bathurst.

[13] During the 1901 election campaign leading to the formation of the first federal parliament, the dominant ideological divide was between the protectionists versus the free traders.

At an election rally held in Bathurst on Tuesday evening, 26 March 1901, speakers addressed a crowd of two thousand from the balcony of the Park Hotel in support of the Free Trade candidate Sydney Smith.

White added: "These inane and empty-headed descendants of the Goths and Vandals roared themselves hoarse in order to stifle freedom of speech, and not satisfied with bellowing and conducting themselves like wild animals from a menagerie, they gave vent to their low, cowardly, unmanly, and despicable instincts by hurling rotten and other eggs at the speakers and others on the platform.

[2] In February 1902 the partnership between Charles and Gloster White "carrying on business as Printers and Newspaper Proprietors" was dissolved "by Mutual Consent".

[22][2] From February 1917 to September 1919 a series of articles written by White under the title 'The Rise and Progress of the West: The Story of Settlement Beyond the Blue Mountains' was published in The Farmer & Settler.