Joe Wilson and His Mates (1901) is a collection of short stories by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson.

It was released in hardback by William Blackwood in 1901 when Lawson was living in England, and features one of the author's better known stories in "The Loaded Dog".

On the other hand, when Mr. Lawson gets hold of a strong incident, as in "The Babies in the Bush", the power of imagination tells, and the reader is affected by the author's own feeling.

He has brought a strong, unconventional mind, and a gift of intense expression to a set of new conditions and an unknown land.

In the softening of harsh tints too we detect Lawson looking back through the golden after-glow of memory and thinking lovingly of the homeland.