I've struck gold! (Part 1, 1851)

Mar 26, 2021

But who found it first? And who was like a bloated frog?

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Mar 26, 2021Liked by Andrew Chapman

This story reinforces a truism which still has currency on the Australian goldfields today: "there is no truth around gold".

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