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... Iron Blow , Karlson found good gold . Suspecting that it might have been washed down from the Iron Blow , he climbed the hill to the massive outcrop , clambered on to the ironstone and shook the dirt from the grass roots into his tin ...
... Iron Blow , Karlson found good gold . Suspecting that it might have been washed down from the Iron Blow , he climbed the hill to the massive outcrop , clambered on to the ironstone and shook the dirt from the grass roots into his tin ...
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... Iron Blow , he had had weeks to peg it . He could have pegged it in March . And in November he had been within an hour's walk of it before the discoverers filed past his camp . He could have pegged even then , while the Cooneys and ...
... Iron Blow , he had had weeks to peg it . He could have pegged it in March . And in November he had been within an hour's walk of it before the discoverers filed past his camp . He could have pegged even then , while the Cooneys and ...
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... Iron Blow . Through the bitter winter of 1884 the prospectors worked on , sheltering in smoky tents only when snow carpeted the valley or storms swept past . The rains filled the dams , and they won good gold sluicing the hillside ...
... Iron Blow . Through the bitter winter of 1884 the prospectors worked on , sheltering in smoky tents only when snow carpeted the valley or storms swept past . The rains filled the dams , and they won good gold sluicing the hillside ...
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