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 52
... rush to Siberia when Billy Frost , always an outrider , and Donner came in with forty ounces to apply for a claim in dry country west of Goongarrie , seventy - odd miles from Coolgardie . Little was known of the new find except that the ...
... rush to Siberia when Billy Frost , always an outrider , and Donner came in with forty ounces to apply for a claim in dry country west of Goongarrie , seventy - odd miles from Coolgardie . Little was known of the new find except that the ...
Page 58
... rush set in ? " " Well , I started for Coolgardie to apply for a prospecting claim . This was on June 17th and on the following day , which was Sunday , the news of our find soon got abroad there were 1,400 or 1,500 men here in about a ...
... rush set in ? " " Well , I started for Coolgardie to apply for a prospecting claim . This was on June 17th and on the following day , which was Sunday , the news of our find soon got abroad there were 1,400 or 1,500 men here in about a ...
Page 205
... rush , they kept quiet . Only three years earlier a Coolgardie prospector named McCann who had started a bogus rush would almost certainly have been lynched or shot by angry diggers had it not been for the efforts of John Marshall and ...
... rush , they kept quiet . Only three years earlier a Coolgardie prospector named McCann who had started a bogus rush would almost certainly have been lynched or shot by angry diggers had it not been for the efforts of John Marshall and ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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