BK 00101

2021-09-24T09:29:52+09:30

Walkabout by Charles & Elsa Chauvel, W H Allen, 1959

BK 001012021-09-24T09:29:52+09:30

BK 00100

2021-09-20T20:06:24+09:30

Book "They Struck Opal" by E.F. Murphy "Tales of men and mines in the heyday of Australian Opal" Ted Murphy wrote about his life from when he left school in 1875 to work on a station on the Murrumbidgee River then to stations further outback. His first mining venture was for gold at Mt Brown and Milparinka then was in Wilcannia running  a General Store at the end of 1889, at the time when Alf Richardson, Charlie Turner, George Hooley and W.H. Clouston arrived at Wilcannia to secure rights to mine for opal on Momba Station (which became the White Cliffs [...]

BK 001002021-09-20T20:06:24+09:30

BK 00099

2021-06-18T10:12:22+09:30

Opal Hunters The Bartrams on the Opal Fields 1936-2021 by Donald Bartram Covers opal mining in Andamooka by the Bartram family from the first visit by Walter Bartram in 1936, to Coober Pedy in the mid 1940's, to Glengarry in the 1970's, White Cliffs and Purnunga in the 1980's then back to Coober Pedy in 2016.  

BK 000992021-06-18T10:12:22+09:30

BK 00098

2020-10-29T17:36:48+10:30

Opal Dreaming A Short History of Coober Pedy by Sue Britt

BK 000982020-10-29T17:36:48+10:30

BK 00097

2020-10-29T13:36:45+10:30

"South Australian Scrapbook" - Glimpses of Colourful People and Events by South Australian Writers Fellowship Page 152 - 'No Empty Desert' by Rhonda Traeger Contains extracts from Pastor Fred Traeger's Journal c.1959

BK 000972020-10-29T13:36:45+10:30

BK 00096

2020-10-29T15:16:36+10:30

" Australia the big sky country"  by Coralie & Leslie Rees Chapter 3 - Opal Gougers of Coober Pedy page 16 Mentions Bert Wilson, Ettie Hall, Hilda Kent, Reg & Andy Carlaw, Don Field, Tottie & Charlie Bryant, c.1960

BK 000962020-10-29T15:16:36+10:30

BK 00095

2020-04-08T06:02:00+09:30

Will the Wonderkid by Stephanie Owen Reeder is a fictionalised retelling of the story of Will Hutchison and the discovery of opal.

BK 000952020-04-08T06:02:00+09:30

BK 00094

2019-12-28T09:55:33+10:30

The Story of George & Frances Bartram and their Descendants Lutheran Publishing House, copyright 1986, ISBN 1 86252 044 4

BK 000942019-12-28T09:55:33+10:30

BK 00093

2020-01-04T08:20:26+10:30

In the Wake of History 1801 - 1994 History of the Wake Family compiled by Helen Rogers, 1994, ISBN 0 646 20519 6

BK 000932020-01-04T08:20:26+10:30

BK 00092

2020-01-04T08:22:28+10:30

When Camels Did the Carting by M.A. Harcourt. Mary Halliday, first woman on the Coober Pedy opal fields in 1921, wrote this unpublished manuscript about her life travelling and working in outback Australia.

BK 000922020-01-04T08:22:28+10:30
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