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Author Cusack, Frank.

Title Bendigo : a history / Frank Cusack
Published Melbourne : Heinemann (Australia), 1973

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Description 262 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 26cm
Contents The land of the friendly hill -- The men and the animals -- Squatting at Ravenswood -- Mrs Kennedy's christmas stocking -- The way North -- The gullies of Midas -- Wild, free amd independent -- The strage assembly -- A town is born -- Men with a grievance -- Red ribbons in the rain -- Culmination -- Breaking the grip -- Sludge and reefing -- A first spree -- The most go-aheas place -- The dream of 'seventy-one' -- Water at last -- True blues and loyal hearts -- Back on bendigo -- Decline -- The last shift
Summary History of the Bendigo district from the 1830s, when the first stockmen and their flocks arrived, through the gold rush of the 1850s, until 1954, when the last gold mine closed; includes early encounters with the local Kulin people
Analysis Victoria. Bendigo, 1836-1954
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 235-245
Subject Gold mines and mining -- Victoria -- Bendigo
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Bendigo (Vic.)
Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- Victoria.
SUBJECT Bendigo (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032554 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
LC no. 74196359
ISBN 0855610328