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For those were early days on the fields , halcyon , romantic days before the overcrowding and the decline in the income of the diggers wiped the laugh off their faces and put rifles rather than picks and shovels on their shoulders .
For those were early days on the fields , halcyon , romantic days before the overcrowding and the decline in the income of the diggers wiped the laugh off their faces and put rifles rather than picks and shovels on their shoulders .
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By contrast , on the same gold - fields some diggers professed their faith in human brotherhood , and testified that the bounteous gifts of Heaven belonged to the whole human race . 10 By 1860 the majority of diggers on the fields at ...
By contrast , on the same gold - fields some diggers professed their faith in human brotherhood , and testified that the bounteous gifts of Heaven belonged to the whole human race . 10 By 1860 the majority of diggers on the fields at ...
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Two years after the riots , Lambing Flat as a gold - field was on its last legs . ... Some moved on to the fields at Gympie , and from there to Charters Towers , and later to the Palmer field inland some one hundred miles from the place ...
Two years after the riots , Lambing Flat as a gold - field was on its last legs . ... Some moved on to the fields at Gympie , and from there to Charters Towers , and later to the Palmer field inland some one hundred miles from the place ...
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Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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| Title | A History of Australia [vol. 3] Volume 4 of A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Feb 2009 |
| ISBN | 0522841473, 9780522841473 |
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