Death from Typhoid Fever was common around the turn of the 19th century. Many of the victims were fit young men who could succumb to the disease and perish very quickly, as this story of a young Police Constable, who had been on the Goldfields less than 6 months, will tell. The following is an […]
The Roll-Up at Lindsey’s Store: Gold, Betrayal, and Bush Justice.
The Truth Perth – 14 April 1906, page 4 ROLL UP AT KURNALPI by the EMINENT EXPLORER As I entered the precincts of the camp at Kurnalpi the dishes were rattling with a venomous din that would have caused a new chum to look around with a view to keeping clear of where the bees […]
Charlie Webb and the Mountain that Wasn’t
The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE: The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence. Mr. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an auriferous patch […]
Life in the Australian Backblocks by E S Sorenson
Life in the Australian Backblocks by Edward S Sorenson THE STOCKMAN “‘Twas merry ‘mid the blackwoods when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard, With a running fire of stockwhips, and a fiery run of hoofs— Oh! the hardest day was never then too hard.” by Adam Lindsay […]
The Day the Pigs Got Drunk at Mt Malcolm
In 1899, the Horan Brothers were the bakers and butchers at Mt Malcolm. Mt Malcolm also had a brewery at this time. One afternoon, the WA Bank Manager, Lowry, and his assistant, Hamilton, invited me to join them. “We are going out to Horans to see the pigs get drunk. Today is the day they […]
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