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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... Mt Burges after an old friend , and a few days later he named a small , brown hill Mt Robinson . Mt Burges is only eight miles north of Coolgardie , and Mt Robinson six miles east of it . As Mt Burges can be seen from Maritana Hill at ...
... Mt Burges after an old friend , and a few days later he named a small , brown hill Mt Robinson . Mt Burges is only eight miles north of Coolgardie , and Mt Robinson six miles east of it . As Mt Burges can be seen from Maritana Hill at ...
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... Mt Burges , but had been dis- appointed , not finding water there . So he had turned south to run for the Gnarlbine Rocks , but , delirious from thirst , would have perished without the help of Toobey . There was water at Gnarlbine ...
... Mt Burges , but had been dis- appointed , not finding water there . So he had turned south to run for the Gnarlbine Rocks , but , delirious from thirst , would have perished without the help of Toobey . There was water at Gnarlbine ...
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... Mt Burges and Hunt's Track , for Bayley remembered Gilles McPherson's story , " Plenty of gold between Gnarlbine Soak and Mt Burges . " Near Mt Burges they picked up the tracks left by Withers some years before . Then eight miles south ...
... Mt Burges and Hunt's Track , for Bayley remembered Gilles McPherson's story , " Plenty of gold between Gnarlbine Soak and Mt Burges . " Near Mt Burges they picked up the tracks left by Withers some years before . Then eight miles south ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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