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Page 120
... night at a place equally distant from three large chapels and hearing from each the cries of penitents . At the 1874-5 revival miners returning from work late at night walked to the doors of chapels to learn how many were saved that night ...
... night at a place equally distant from three large chapels and hearing from each the cries of penitents . At the 1874-5 revival miners returning from work late at night walked to the doors of chapels to learn how many were saved that night ...
Page 166
... night with no gun to shoot into the moving shadows . A tattered group of six Afghans arrived with a woman who called herself The Mountain Maid , and she made money from the field though how she won it was never said . And now they were ...
... night with no gun to shoot into the moving shadows . A tattered group of six Afghans arrived with a woman who called herself The Mountain Maid , and she made money from the field though how she won it was never said . And now they were ...
Page 196
... night to walk through the maze of shafts and trenches to the town where fifteen hotels and saloons were crowded and the fast trains left often for the glamour of Kalgoorlie . Father Long preached in one of the town's corrugated iron ...
... night to walk through the maze of shafts and trenches to the town where fifteen hotels and saloons were crowded and the fast trains left often for the glamour of Kalgoorlie . Father Long preached in one of the town's corrugated iron ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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