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The Roll-Up at Lindsey’s Store: Gold, Betrayal, and Bush Justice.

11/04/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

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

Charlie Webb and the Mountain that Wasn’t

11/04/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Poets Corner, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Henry Lawson, Western Australia, Yundamindera

Life in the Australian Backblocks by E S Sorenson

11/04/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

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

The Day the Pigs Got Drunk at Mt Malcolm

11/04/2026 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

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

Chasing Fortune Under Southern Skies: The Story of James Errington Robson

04/04/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Way back in 2005 (gosh! that was 21 yrs ago), I was in correspondence by email with the relatives of John Errington ROBSON,  a lady by the name of Alison Dixon (Grandaughter), Jim Robson (Son), and Steve Potts. John Errington Robson was born on 24th Sep 1865 in Hetton le Hole, Durham, Northumberland, England (this […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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