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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... east from York , which is sixty miles east of Perth , to explore " uninhabited and forbidding " country in the hope of finding an area suitable for sheep - grazing . • • Lefroy was to pass close to some of the richest gold country in ...
... east from York , which is sixty miles east of Perth , to explore " uninhabited and forbidding " country in the hope of finding an area suitable for sheep - grazing . • • Lefroy was to pass close to some of the richest gold country in ...
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... east of there as far as Kurnalpi . Mt Hunt , eight miles south of Kalgoorlie , is named after him , and he named the near - by open plains , discovered by Lefroy , the Hampton Plains in honour of the Governor of Western Australia ...
... east of there as far as Kurnalpi . Mt Hunt , eight miles south of Kalgoorlie , is named after him , and he named the near - by open plains , discovered by Lefroy , the Hampton Plains in honour of the Governor of Western Australia ...
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... east of the Cross meant winter travel only , and in March 1892 there were good inland rains which filled the soaks and waterholes . In June , Bayley and Ford left Southern Cross with five horses and provisions for some months , moving ...
... east of the Cross meant winter travel only , and in March 1892 there were good inland rains which filled the soaks and waterholes . In June , Bayley and Ford left Southern Cross with five horses and provisions for some months , moving ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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