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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... town , and there it has been for more than seventy years , with spacious , well laid out streets other places may well envy . Wide streets are common enough in goldfields settlements and in ghost - towns farther outback and in other ...
... town , and there it has been for more than seventy years , with spacious , well laid out streets other places may well envy . Wide streets are common enough in goldfields settlements and in ghost - towns farther outback and in other ...
Page 84
... town . • The town has had its ups and downs , but as Phil Collier was aware , it's still a town where an old man feels young . Boulder is a town that has always been " going down . " Nearly sixty years ago " Willy Willy " could write ...
... town . • The town has had its ups and downs , but as Phil Collier was aware , it's still a town where an old man feels young . Boulder is a town that has always been " going down . " Nearly sixty years ago " Willy Willy " could write ...
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... town with something for everybody who stays there long enough . It is still a difficult town in which to live the quiet suburban life . It will never become a garden- city like Perth . Red dust still swirls in with the wind , but the ...
... town with something for everybody who stays there long enough . It is still a difficult town in which to live the quiet suburban life . It will never become a garden- city like Perth . Red dust still swirls in with the wind , but the ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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