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  • Meet the Author: Greg Barron
  • Interviews
  • Book Reviews
  • Wild Dog River
  • Australian Outlaws
  • Larrikins and Characters
  • Settlers and Battlers
  • Drovers and dust
  • Victims of Society
  • Fights and Battles
  • Outback Ruins
  • Inspirational Australians
  • Literary Legends
  • Small Town Stories
  • Images of the Outback
  • Police and Military
  • Indigenous Australians
  • Poetry
  • History Stories - Settlers and Battlers

    Catherine Coleman – Pioneer

    August 7, 2017 - By gbarron

    Catherine Cecilia Coleman wasn’t famous, but was typical of a generation of Australian settlers. She was born in Maitland, NSW in 1856, eldest of ten children. She married in 1871, at the age of 15, and had the first of her own children a couple of years later. Her husband,…

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  • History Stories - Settlers and Battlers

    The Girder that Wouldn’t Fit

    August 10, 2017 - By gbarron

    Things were tough in the NSW North Coast forests in 1907. All the cedar had been cut years earlier, prices for hardwoods had slumped, and the best way to make money was by shaping girders and sleepers. Tamban Forest woodcutter Bob Cooper was lucky enough to snag an order for a huge…

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  • Australian Outlaws - History Stories - Settlers and Battlers

    Collateral Damage

    August 16, 2017 - By gbarron

    Following on from last week’s post about Kate Kelly, spare a thought for the Jones family, who owned the Glenrowan Hotel when the Kelly Gang decided to use it as the venue for a battle with police. Ann Jones was the owner and publican. In the battle her pride and joy…

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  • History Stories - Settlers and Battlers

    Augusta Marion Gaunt

    November 3, 2017 - By gbarron

    Long before Charlie Gaunt rode the plains of Western Queensland and the Gulf Track across to the Kimberleys with the Duracks, his mother was a passenger on an immigrant ship, plying the seas from England to a new life in Australia. The family sailed on the Royal Mail Steamship Africa,…

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  • History Stories - Settlers and Battlers

    John Moore Gaunt and the St Kilda Years

    November 17, 2017 - By gbarron

    Continuing on the series of background articles to Whistler’s Bones, this one covers the arrival of Charlie’s father in Australia, the meeting of his parents, and Charlie’s early years. This is a long post, but if you’ve read Whistler’s Bones, or intend to, it will give you some extra background.…

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  • History Stories - Settlers and Battlers

    Catherine Coleman – Pioneer

    December 8, 2017 - By gbarron

    I’m curious whether anyone who read this story when it was originally posted, and who has also read Whistler’s Bones, noticed the reference on page 75 to Catherine Coleman. Charlie Gaunt and Catherine must surely have met when the Durack droving teams passed through Forest Grove in 1883. Catherine Cecilia…

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    “Captain” Joe Bradshaw

    December 24, 2017 - By gbarron

    “Captain” Joe Bradshaw was one of the most adventurous of the early Northern Australian pastoralists. He was born in Melbourne in 1855 with cattle and farming in his blood. His father owned several properties in Victoria, including Bolwarra and Bacchus Marsh Stations. An explorer by nature, by his early twenties,…

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    Jack and Kate

    December 24, 2017 - By gbarron

    John Warrington Rogers was the eldest son of a politician and QC from Tasmania and Victoria. Young “Jack” as he was called, was sent “home” to England to attend an expensive private school, but he wanted no truck with balls and banquets. As soon as he returned to Australia, he…

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