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... town , and there it has been for more than seventy years , with spacious , well laid out streets other places may well envy . Wide streets are common enough in goldfields settlements and in ghost - towns farther outback and in other ...
... town , and there it has been for more than seventy years , with spacious , well laid out streets other places may well envy . Wide streets are common enough in goldfields settlements and in ghost - towns farther outback and in other ...
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... town . Or perhaps they were unlucky to get in , for the local operators kidded them up gum trees , cheated them , ran rings around them , and left them for dead . A tremendous amount happens in seventy years in any town , particularly ...
... town . Or perhaps they were unlucky to get in , for the local operators kidded them up gum trees , cheated them , ran rings around them , and left them for dead . A tremendous amount happens in seventy years in any town , particularly ...
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... town .... The town has had its ups and downs , but as Phil Collier was aware , it's still a town where an old man feels young . Boulder is a town that has always been " going down . " Nearly sixty years ago " Willy Willy " could write ...
... town .... The town has had its ups and downs , but as Phil Collier was aware , it's still a town where an old man feels young . Boulder is a town that has always been " going down . " Nearly sixty years ago " Willy Willy " could write ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 20 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 32 |
Copyright | |
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