Sunday Times, 23 August 1936, page 20 Drove Coach For Cobb & Co Thousands of Miles Through the Outback by Coach F. A. CREWS LOOKS BACK ON PIONEERING DAYS – A link with coaching days of sixty years ago is provided by Mr Frederick Albert Crews, of Outram Street, West Perth, who has crowded varied […]
The Loaded Dog – a short story by Henry Lawson
The Loaded Dog Dave Regan, Jim Bently, and Andy Page were sinking a shaft at Stony Creek in search of a rich gold quartz reef which was supposed to exist in the vicinity. There is always a rich reef supposed to exist in the vicinity; the only questions are whether it is ten feet or […]
“Return If Possible” – The Mock Funeral for a Runaway Bookmaker
A BOOKIE’S BUNK Morris Jacobs Missing from Kookynie The burly form of Morris Jacobs was for long a familiar feature of a Kookynie Hotel billiard room. It has vanished now, and thereby hangs a tale, a tale of woe, for Morris skipped, leaving Kookynie sports lamenting. Months ago Morris opened a book on the Melbourne […]
When an Old Horse Changed Western Australia’s Goldfields Forever
Daily News 19 January 1935, page 12 Yellowdine Finder Tells His Romantic Story A horse with teeth missing makes history and a New Goldfield Rewards Years of Prospecting. PALMERS GRAPHIC STORY – If it had not been that an old horse, to be exact 25 years old, was four teeth short and could not pick […]
The Gate of Golden Hope –
Western Mail Perth 25 December 1928, page 76 Micky O’Driscoll, or “Micky the Priest”, as he was known, humped his bluey disconsolately through the scrubby jam-tree thicket. Behind him, some ten miles lay the town . . . . Hell’s blessings on it! . . . where he had squandered two months’ wages in as […]