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