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Page 137
... horses or nothing but strong boots pushed north nearly two hundred miles to the rush at Mount Browne . At the riverports of Bourke and Wilcannia small processions left the wide streets and disappeared into the mirage . The largest ...
... horses or nothing but strong boots pushed north nearly two hundred miles to the rush at Mount Browne . At the riverports of Bourke and Wilcannia small processions left the wide streets and disappeared into the mirage . The largest ...
Page 164
... Horse teams were overloaded , and as the horses had eaten hay on the sea trip and now ate coarse grass they could not pull the loads . Along the way goods were unloaded and concealed in marked graves . No water lay on one stage of ...
... Horse teams were overloaded , and as the horses had eaten hay on the sea trip and now ate coarse grass they could not pull the loads . Along the way goods were unloaded and concealed in marked graves . No water lay on one stage of ...
Page 165
... horses with any piece of iron they could find , and at Kimberley one could see horses from nearly every pastoral run in Northern Australia . Others rode up the telegraph line from South Australia , then pushed west . One party comprised ...
... horses with any piece of iron they could find , and at Kimberley one could see horses from nearly every pastoral run in Northern Australia . Others rode up the telegraph line from South Australia , then pushed west . One party comprised ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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