Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgoo Goldfields Chronicler – 23 December 1898, page 18 It was in the early, though not the ‘very’ early days, that Cue awoke one morning to find a charmer in its midst with golden hair that put the most glittering nugget to shame, and a sealskin jacket that brought back […]
Mick of the Murchison – ‘Doing Time’
Western Mail 8 July 1937, page 11 The Dolly Pot – Over the Plates. “Doing Time.” In Tuckanarra, a mining town about 25 miles north of Cue, there resided in the late 1800s, a man named Mick. He was an excellent judge of a horse, a good rider and bushman, and knew to a penny […]
When the Law of the Outback is Swift and Ready –
The Truth Perth – 30 March 1930, page 7 When the Law of the Outback is Swift and Ready Another Nor’west Tragedy It was practically suicide! He would never weather the dry, continuous sun storms. Day upon day the sun beat mercilessly down upon the waterless stretch, and night after night the moon shone with […]
The World Well Lost for Love
Bunbury Herald 5 June 1907, page 3 The Story of Bob and Jack A PROSPECTOR’S SACRIFICE By R. M. Cochrane Every prospector knows the dreary tracts of the Mount Margaret goldfields of Western Australia, but few are acquainted with the unspeakable dreariness of the tracks beyond, leading to the McDonnell ranges. So far as the […]
The Days of Cobb & Co
The Sun 23 July 1939, page 4 Cobb & Co on the Goldfields These goldfields were one of the last strongholds of the famous firm of Cobb & Co whose coaches were one of the principal means of communication all over Australia. The story of this pictorial phase of Goldfield’s life is here reviewed. It […]
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