The Mile that Midas TouchedThe story of Kalgoorlie's golden mile - the richest few acres of gold-bearing country in the world - and of the rest of the Eastern goldfields in Western Australia. |
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... Bayley and Ford rode quietly into Southern Cross for stores , three young men - Tommy Talbot from Devon ( later one of the State's prominent pastoralists ) , Harry Baker from London , and Dick Fosser , a Swede - were out of work because ...
... Bayley and Ford rode quietly into Southern Cross for stores , three young men - Tommy Talbot from Devon ( later one of the State's prominent pastoralists ) , Harry Baker from London , and Dick Fosser , a Swede - were out of work because ...
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... Bayley said , “ Put up that revolver , Bill . We'll have no shooting . " The ... Ford later indignantly denied Talbot's story . Three young men were camped ... Bayley came back about six o'clock . He asked if I'd been down at the reef and ...
... Bayley said , “ Put up that revolver , Bill . We'll have no shooting . " The ... Ford later indignantly denied Talbot's story . Three young men were camped ... Bayley came back about six o'clock . He asked if I'd been down at the reef and ...
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Gavin Casey, Ted Mayman. Ford demanded the return of the specimens already taken , but Bayley struck a bargain with Talbot's party , allowing them to keep the specimens on condition that they did not interfere with Ford while he , Bayley ...
Gavin Casey, Ted Mayman. Ford demanded the return of the specimens already taken , but Bayley struck a bargain with Talbot's party , allowing them to keep the specimens on condition that they did not interfere with Ford while he , Bayley ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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