Australian Heroes and Adventurers
by William T. Pyke
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About this eBook
- Author
- Pyke, William T. (William Thomas)
- Credits
- Produced by fh, Nick Wall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas)
- Subject
- Burke and Wills Expedition, (1860-1861)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 40003
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40003
- Release Date
- June 15, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Australian Heroes AND Adventurers .
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.Australian Heroes and Adventurers.
- 5.Burke and Wills. — CHAPTER I. — CHAPTER II. — CHAPTER III. — CHAPTER IV.
- 6.OLD TIMES ON THE GOLD-FIELDS, INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF The Ballarat Rebellion.
- 7.Old Times on the Gold-Fields. — CHAPTER I. — EARLY DISCOVERIES IN NEW SOUTH WALES. — HARGRAVES, THE PIONEER MINER. — THE ABORIGINAL DISCOVERER. — CHAPTER II. — JAMES ESMOND, THE VICTORIAN PIONEER DIGGER. — OTHER PIONEERS. — CHAPTER III. — CANVAS TOWN. — RAG FAIR. — NEW CHUMS AND OLD CHUMS. — CHAPTER IV. — SLY GROG SHANTIES. — CHAPTER V. — DIGGER-HUNTING ANECDOTES. — CHAPTER VI. — AN IRISH GALLANT. — REFORM LEAGUES. — CHAPTER VII. — A LOYAL TOAST. — BURNING THE LICENSES. — THE LAST DIGGER-HUNT. — CHAPTER VIII. — STORMING OF THE STOCKADE. — EXCITEMENT IN MELBOURNE. — WRONGS RIGHTED.
- 8.FOOTNOTES:
- 9.Transcriber's Notes:
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