Just goes to show that you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the paper (sorry TROVE its not your fault). I was going through a pile of archived newspaper cuttings, collected many years ago, before TROVE existed, and of course I read and checked all the ‘Mine Accidents’. There have in the past only been […]
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The story of Joe Hogan
02/01/2017 By Leave a Comment
The following story was told by Jack Drayton, well know in the early Goldfields days as a journalist and a prospector. From the day he arrived in Coolgardie in 1894 Joe Hogan was a “loner”, who never had a mate and never told anyone where he was going, although he always came back to town […]
