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Gold Rush Days The Kimberley

03/02/2024 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

West Australian 14 September 1934, page 29 GOLD RUSH DAYS The Kimberley the Eighties Interesting diaries, containing details of life in the North in the eighties, and written by one who was a trooper with the first police gold escort sent to Halls Creek goldfield in 1886, are in the possession of Mr. S. P. […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Halls Creek, police history, Western Australia

The Loneliest Goldfield in the World –

03/02/2024 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Daily News – 19 November 1932, page 11 The Granites: A Hard Trek and a Rigorous Existence Where Every Ounce of Gold is Earned Indeed (By F. E. Baume, our Special Representative with the Madigan Expedition to the Granites goldfield. Written shortly after arrival at the field three weeks ago.) ‘The Madigan Geologist Expedition’ has […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Explorers, Goldfields History

The Gold Seekers of Central Australia –

20/01/2024 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Sunday Times 16 August 1931, page 1 Gold Seekers of Central Australia Government Geologist Blatchford Accompanies Expedition- Sydney Syndicate’s Efforts to Locate Rich Reef Documents Left by Dead Prospector Gold! What a magic spell the word casts over most people, and what a magnet the elusive metal is to tens of thousands of adventurous souls! […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Lassiter, Western Australia

Skeleton Gully by Arthur Watts

06/01/2024 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Mail 16 December 1898, page 102 Skeleton Gully by Arthur Watts I was bushed! After I had spent two hours vainly attempting to find the track, I sat down for a rest and a smoke, and I admitted to myself that I was really bushed. I had started from the township early in the […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Goldfields History, Western Australia

How Mac Held the Bonnie Dundee

30/12/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

How Mac Held The Bonnie Dundee The Golden West Magazine 1921 For The  Golden West by JOHN DRAYTON “My apologies for the Scottish dialect, but it wouldn’t be the same if translated to plain English, hope you can make it out” In the early days of the Victorian goldfields, when , the present writer, was […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Claim jumpers, Goldfields History

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