Lasseter's Last Ride

{{Short description|Book by Ion Idriess}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox book|  | name = | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:LassetersLastRide.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Ion Idriess | illustrator = | cover_artist = Edgar A. Holloway | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Angus and Robertson | release_date = 1931 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Lasseter's Last Ride''''' is an Australian book by Ion Idriess.<ref name = "TheLand">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111607536 |title=THE UNFINISHED EPIC OF "DAS" LASSETER. |newspaper=The Land (Sydney, NSW : 1911 - 1954) |location=Sydney, NSW |date=18 September 1931 |accessdate=18 August 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

It was his first best seller,<ref>[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/idriess-ion-llewellyn-6786/text11739 Julian Croft, 'Idriess, Ion Llewellyn (1889–1979)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University] accessed 18 August 2013.</ref> selling more than 90,000 copies in Australia.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Australia. Department of Education. | author2=Australia. Department of Education and Science. | author3=Australia. Commonwealth Office of Education. | title=THE BOOKS AUSTRALIANS READ | journal=Hemisphere | orig-date=1957 | department=Section v. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm. | issn=0018-0300 | volume=4 | issue=2 | date=February 1960 | location=North Sydney, N.S.W | publisher=Dept. of Education and Science | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3135886198 | id=nla.obj-3135886198 | access-date=1 June 2023 | via=Trove }}</ref>

There were five different editions of it.<ref>[http://www.idriess.com.au/3lasseter.htm Lassters Last Ride] at Ion Idriess</ref> It tells the story of Harold Bell Lasseter and Lasseter's Reef.<ref name = "TheLand"/>

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