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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... Mate of Your Father's , " is descriptive of personalities who were large and important in the lives of several Australian generations , and the old mates of our goldfields fathers came in considerable variety . Maybe , as barefoot boys ...
... Mate of Your Father's , " is descriptive of personalities who were large and important in the lives of several Australian generations , and the old mates of our goldfields fathers came in considerable variety . Maybe , as barefoot boys ...
Page 34
... mate could part " all square . " He was a footrunner who , when fortune was not smiling on his search for gold , could promote himself into matches and back himself well enough to get a grubstake at the expense of the betters and the ...
... mate could part " all square . " He was a footrunner who , when fortune was not smiling on his search for gold , could promote himself into matches and back himself well enough to get a grubstake at the expense of the betters and the ...
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... mate at the discovery of Kalgoorlie , received nothing . Flanagan lost a leg and is now hard up in Melbourne . Hannan , failing to get his claim on the government acknowledged , transferred to his mate one - half of his own allotment ...
... mate at the discovery of Kalgoorlie , received nothing . Flanagan lost a leg and is now hard up in Melbourne . Hannan , failing to get his claim on the government acknowledged , transferred to his mate one - half of his own allotment ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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