The Herald Melbourne VIC – 13 January 1934, page 24 My Life Outback as a Mule Driver’s Offsider On The Track With One-Spur Dick by Arthur W Upfield To One-Spur Dick, I owe a debt never to be repaid. Here on Tearle Station, Western New South Wales, set down in the middle of the night […]
The Secret Life of Major Pelly – Gentleman of the Road
Four years after the establishment of the Department of Mines in 1894, it bore little resemblance to the tiny Mining Branch which had started operation within the Department of Lands and Surveys in Perth Western Australia. Mr. Patrick Pelly, a clerk with the Department, was remembered as a reserved, courteous and obliging old fellow; however, […]
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 […]
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