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  • Wild Dog River
  • Australian Outlaws
  • Larrikins and Characters
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  • 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
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  • Australian Outlaws - History Stories - Uncategorized

    The Capture of the Kenniff Brothers

    August 7, 2017 - By gbarron

    It was April the 2nd 1902 when Queensland policeman, Constable Doyle, closed in on Patrick and James Kenniff at a rugged mountain hideout called Lethbridge’s Pocket. With the manager of Carnarvon Station, Albert Dahlke, and a tracker called Sam Johnson for company, Doyle stealthily approached the camp. Wanted for horse…

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    The McGree Brothers of Taylors Arm

    August 7, 2017 - By gbarron

    John, Michael and Patrick McGree were raised on their parents’ farm on the Mid-north coast of NSW. All three answered the call to arms in 1915. The ANZAC battalions were forming up, and the brothers were determined to have their chance at glory. Their mother, Bridget Sullivan, had married Irishman…

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  • Drovers and dust - History Stories - Uncategorized

    Nat Buchanan

    August 7, 2017 - By gbarron

    When Irishman, Lieutenant Charles Henry Buchanan and his wife, Annie, emigrated to Australia and took up a New England station called Rimbanda, they had no idea that their son Nathaniel would one day become known as the greatest drover the world has ever seen. Nat grew from a cheerful and…

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  • History Stories - Small Town Stories - Uncategorized

    The Town on the Flood Plain

    August 10, 2017 - By gbarron

    Gundagai Flood 1900: National Library of Australia Australia’s worst flood drowned one third of the population of Gundagai in 1852. The town was originally built on low-lying areas around a natural river crossing and Morley’s Creek. The inhabitants were used to being cut off by floodwaters, taking refuge in their…

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    The Man with a Mission

    September 8, 2017 - By gbarron

    The year was 1882, and the sheets were wet with blood and sweat as the young woman fought to deliver her third child. The baby was born sickly and weak. Even worse, the midwife could not stop the new mother from bleeding. It was soon obvious that she was dying.…

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  • Drovers and dust - History Stories - Uncategorized

    Charles Fisher – Cattle King

    January 26, 2018 - By gbarron

    Most Australians know the names of our biggest cattle kings, Sidney Kidman and John Cox. Charles Brown Fisher was in the same league, building an empire of land, men, cattle and sheep when things were much tougher. Charles was born in 1818, in London. Feeling restricted by city life, as…

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  • Drovers and dust - History Stories - Uncategorized - Whistler's Bones

    Tom Kilfoyle

    February 17, 2018 - By gbarron

    Tom Kilfoyle, a cousin of the pioneering Durack family, was Charlie Gaunt’s boss for much of the 1883-6 overland drive from the Channel Country in Queensland to Rosewood Station in the Kimberleys. Tom was born in County Clare, Ireland in 1842 but became a highly skilled bushman. Interestingly, he later…

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    Charlie Flannigan and the Auvergne Station Murder

    March 2, 2018 - By gbarron

    September 1892. The game was cribbage for a stick of tobacco each hand. Four men whiling away a long night by the light of a slush lamp on Auvergne Station, near the NT/WA border. Even today, Auvergne is an isolated and dramatic locale; rugged mountains cut through by the Bullo,…

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