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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

The Bulletin Hotel – by Henry Lawson

14/05/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was drifting in the drizzle past the Cecil in the Strand Which, I’m told is very tony – and its front looks very grand And somehow fell a-thinking of a pub I know so well Of a place in West Australia called The Bulletin Hotel Just a little six-room shanty built of corrugated tin […]

Filed Under: Hotels, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Henry Lawson, Western Australia

But What’s The Use – Henry Lawson

18/01/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

But what’s the use of writing ‘bush’— Though editors demand it— For city folk, and farming folk, Can never understand it. They’re blind to what the bushman sees The best with eyes shut tightest, Out where the sun is hottest and The stars are most and brightest. The crows at sunrise flopping round Where some […]

Filed Under: People, Poets Corner Tagged With: Goldfields History, Henry Lawson

The Drovers Wife – a short story by Henry Lawson

16/11/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Drover’s Wife is a dramatic short story by the Australian writer Henry Lawson. It recounts the story of an outback woman left alone with her four children in an isolated hut. The story can be read in full here: The Drovers Wife In The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson, we have the theme of struggle, hardship, […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: drover, Goldfields History, Henry Lawson

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