The spectacular gold output of this now forgotten show created legends in the 1890s. The ore was carted hundreds of miles by packhorse for treatment. Most of the owners drank themselves to d...
Charles Ross was of that great Australian breed, the Overlanders. Arriving on the Ashburton in the early 1890s from the Kimberley and further east, he was a successful prospector.
The brutal shootings and bludgeoning of many Aboriginal men, women, and children at Laverton in 1910, which shocked the nation. The trial resulted in the acquittal of the perpetrators.
The 1890s goldrush was rocked by the claims of a great massacre on the frontier. This book details the evidence and the results of the magisterial inquiry.
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In late 1925 Moorish horse dealer, Alexander Hughes, and his aboriginal assistant, Sailor, disappeared from Mount Minnie Station near Onslow in the North West of Western Australia. In 1920 a...
Fred, a NW aboriginal became a bush circus horse rider and ended up in Victoria where he was long thought to be the model for Pelaco’s “Mine tinkit they fit” shirt advertisements. He w...
Nullagine probably has had more murders per head of population than any other place in Western Australia. The latest openly recorded being that of ‘Old Otto’ in 1983. Nullagine, the blis...
Details the disappearance of the lugger San Michelle in 1971. The bios of the skipper, Stan Stojanovic and Margaret Maclean give interesting and little known details on the people involved.
A collection of prospectors’ and miners’ stories with magnificent photographs of mining life now long past.