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... east from York , which is sixty miles east of Perth , to explore " uninhabited and forbidding " country in the hope of finding an area suitable for sheep - grazing . Lefroy was to pass close to some of the richest gold country in the ...
... east from York , which is sixty miles east of Perth , to explore " uninhabited and forbidding " country in the hope of finding an area suitable for sheep - grazing . Lefroy was to pass close to some of the richest gold country in the ...
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... east from Southern Cross in the eighties and the nineties . Goldfields history is rich in names bestowed by him on his watering points - Kookoordine , Reen's Soak , Gnarlbine Rocks , Hunt's Slate Well , and others . Limited though their ...
... east from Southern Cross in the eighties and the nineties . Goldfields history is rich in names bestowed by him on his watering points - Kookoordine , Reen's Soak , Gnarlbine Rocks , Hunt's Slate Well , and others . Limited though their ...
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... east of the Cross meant winter travel only , and in March 1892 there were good inland rains which filled the soaks and waterholes . In June , Bayley and Ford left Southern Cross with five horses and provisions for some months , moving ...
... east of the Cross meant winter travel only , and in March 1892 there were good inland rains which filled the soaks and waterholes . In June , Bayley and Ford left Southern Cross with five horses and provisions for some months , moving ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 20 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 32 |
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