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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... goorlie , then turned to travel another 700 miles to the east along John Forrest's track of 1874. They picked up Ernest Giles ' track of 1876 at Alexander Spring , skirted the Alfred and Marie Range in the Gibson Desert , passed the 31.
... goorlie , then turned to travel another 700 miles to the east along John Forrest's track of 1874. They picked up Ernest Giles ' track of 1876 at Alexander Spring , skirted the Alfred and Marie Range in the Gibson Desert , passed the 31.
Page 70
... goorlie . The town surveyor and works supervisor , who later helped spread Kalgoorlie's wide streets , was Fred Casey , father of Gavin Casey . A bohemian of his times , he regarded beer as a boy's drink , and , with his wide Woodrow ...
... goorlie . The town surveyor and works supervisor , who later helped spread Kalgoorlie's wide streets , was Fred Casey , father of Gavin Casey . A bohemian of his times , he regarded beer as a boy's drink , and , with his wide Woodrow ...
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... goorlie . Bred on the Golden Mile with something of that reckless , restless streak of his generation , Harry knows the goldfields as well as the next man . As a boy , playing with a detonator , he lost a hand and an eye , but he gives ...
... goorlie . Bred on the Golden Mile with something of that reckless , restless streak of his generation , Harry knows the goldfields as well as the next man . As a boy , playing with a detonator , he lost a hand and an eye , but he gives ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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