Beyond the Big Bend by Greg Barron

Beyond the Big Bend by Greg Barron188 page short paperback. In the early 1850s everyone knows that the Murray River has potential for river traffic. It takes months for drays to bring stores to isolated stations, and sheds packed with wool bales wait for transport to market. The South Australian government offers a cash reward for the captains of the first two steam powered vessels to not only arrive at the Murray, but travel upstream to the junction with the Darling. Two men answer

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Early in the twentieth century Kalgoorlie gold miner Ben McDonald forms a mining partnership with his London based brother Henry

They called her Red Jack

Nemarluk was an Aboriginal freedom fighter

trucks and aeroplane

well researched story

who are locked in a deadly battle from the moment squatter Donald Macintosh commits an act of barbarity on his Queensland property

But as they flee through rugged Australian bushland together

The first time I went fishing with Steve Flockton

John started writing in 2015 and has a fascination with the darker aspects of the human condition

time and again

the slacker