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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Page 147
... bush , or must operate some sort of small mine as a cover for his activity . He must know where to sell the gold , and how to get it there . It is the bush plants that the detectives of the Gold Stealing branch must chase up if they ...
... bush , or must operate some sort of small mine as a cover for his activity . He must know where to sell the gold , and how to get it there . It is the bush plants that the detectives of the Gold Stealing branch must chase up if they ...
Page 151
... bush , waiting near a hidden treatment plant , had no idea that anybody would shoot at them , for they were on Christian name terms with their quarry . However , when they stepped out of the scrub to arrest William Coulter and Phil ...
... bush , waiting near a hidden treatment plant , had no idea that anybody would shoot at them , for they were on Christian name terms with their quarry . However , when they stepped out of the scrub to arrest William Coulter and Phil ...
Page 191
... bush , sharpening their knives , and getting ready to invade Kalgoorlie and Boulder and slaughter everybody . Actually , many of the foreigners had gone , taking their women and children to uncomfortable encampments in the dry , dusty bush ...
... bush , sharpening their knives , and getting ready to invade Kalgoorlie and Boulder and slaughter everybody . Actually , many of the foreigners had gone , taking their women and children to uncomfortable encampments in the dry , dusty bush ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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