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... goldfields , even in their first years , were more given to church - going and Sabbath quietness and alcoholic temperance than modern Australian outback towns with a similar preponderance of men . Australian goldfields were probably ...
... goldfields , even in their first years , were more given to church - going and Sabbath quietness and alcoholic temperance than modern Australian outback towns with a similar preponderance of men . Australian goldfields were probably ...
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... goldfields rather than the decline of the goldfields created problems in the cities . Recent scholars have had a favourite question : where did the Vic- torian miners go after the goldfields declined ? They have ignored the more ...
... goldfields rather than the decline of the goldfields created problems in the cities . Recent scholars have had a favourite question : where did the Vic- torian miners go after the goldfields declined ? They have ignored the more ...
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... goldfields ( 1911 ) , and his two volumes on the Cobar copper and goldfield ( 1911 , 1913 ) . State Archives : Minutes of the N.S.W. Executive Council 1849-51 , Colonial Secretary's files of April and May 1851 including inward corres ...
... goldfields ( 1911 ) , and his two volumes on the Cobar copper and goldfield ( 1911 , 1913 ) . State Archives : Minutes of the N.S.W. Executive Council 1849-51 , Colonial Secretary's files of April and May 1851 including inward corres ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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