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Page 183
... prospectors spread like stars in a clearing sky . Pastoralists moving north from the wind - swirled port of Esperance found gold in the Dundas Hills , and gold - seekers moved south from Coolgardie and found Norseman , still rich in ...
... prospectors spread like stars in a clearing sky . Pastoralists moving north from the wind - swirled port of Esperance found gold in the Dundas Hills , and gold - seekers moved south from Coolgardie and found Norseman , still rich in ...
Page 185
... prospectors began to move out . Frost and Tregurtha went to the Klondike , Carnegie went to Nigeria to die from a poisoned arrow , and many of the most daring of Western Australian prospectors were in the wildernesses of the world long ...
... prospectors began to move out . Frost and Tregurtha went to the Klondike , Carnegie went to Nigeria to die from a poisoned arrow , and many of the most daring of Western Australian prospectors were in the wildernesses of the world long ...
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... prospectors and therefore likely to con- ceal the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie of the twentieth century . In fact , many skilled explorers and geologists and prospectors had gone through or near the ranges . Ernest Giles had passed by in ...
... prospectors and therefore likely to con- ceal the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie of the twentieth century . In fact , many skilled explorers and geologists and prospectors had gone through or near the ranges . Ernest Giles had passed by in ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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