Where
the Dead Men Lie
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pinions
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wings
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sallee
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wattle
(acacia) bush/small tree
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Jim’s
Whip
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greenhide
fall
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leather
strap at the end of a whip handle
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sallee
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wattle
(acacia) bush/small tree
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It was a
common occurrence for stockmen to say, in praising a whip: "that’s
the whip that brought the cattle back after the drought."
On
the Boundary
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chock-and-log
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timber
log fence
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sandalwood
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a
shrubby bush
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pines
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native
cypress pine tree - grows closely together in thickets - prevalent in dry and
rocky areas
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Belar
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native
she oak (casuarina glauca) - small tree - resembles a pine - has drooping
branches with long needles that whisper in the wind
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Jack’s
Last Muster
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C O B
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a Cobb
and Co cattle brand
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"yellowtop"
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yellow
flowered perennial grass
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‘Twixt
the Wings of the Yard
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wings
of the yard
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side
rails leading into the mustering yard
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greenhide
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leather
whip lash
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Skeeta
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drovers
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travelling
stockmen
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Never-Never
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the
desert interior of Australia
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the
West
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the
western interior of Australia
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the
Gulf
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the
Gulf of Carpentaria in the far north of Australia
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Bourke
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town
in the north west of New South Wales
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Paroo
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river
near Cunnamulla - a town in south west Queensland
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Eulo
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small
town near Cunnamulla
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cabbage-tree
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bushman’s
hat made from woven cabbage tree palm leaves
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At
the "J.C."
Kitty
McCrae
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Greytown
Mail
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gold
delivery from Kiandra
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Traveller’s
Rest
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hotel in
Adaminaby
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O’Connor’s
Hill
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hill on
the road from Kiandra (former gold mining town in the Snowy Mountains) to
Adaminaby
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sidling
the range
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travelling
across the steep side of a hill
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warrigal
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wild
horse, brumby
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Redbank
workings
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former
gold mining workings
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postal
gate
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where the
mail is delivered
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river-oak
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she oak
(casuarina cunninghamana)
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The
Demon Snow-Shoes
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Kiandra
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former
gold mining town in the Snowy Mountains
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Eucumbene
River
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flows
past Kiandra shortly after it rises in the Snowy Mountains
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New
Chum claim
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gold
mine overlooking Kiandra
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Township
Hill
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the
slope above Kiandra where skiing is said to have started in Australia
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Sawyer’s
Hill
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hill on
the road out of Kiandra towards Adaminaby
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The
Digger’s Song
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tailings
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the
material left after the gold has been taken out
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How
Polly paid for her Keep
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Crackenback
Claim
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gold
mining claim on the Thredbo River in the Snowy Mountains
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swell
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clever
person
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Tumbarumba
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town
to the west of the Snowy Mountains
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Germanton
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now
called Holbrook - town to west of the Snowy Mountains - renamed at the time
of the First World War
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Tumut
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town
to the west of the Snowy Mountains
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Rosewood
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small
town on the road between Tumbarumba and Carabost
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Carabost
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small
town to the west of the Snowy Mountains
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"break"
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where
a mail road passes through a fence it was customary to dispense with a gate -
instead a narrow laneway fenced on either side was constructed which was
called a "break"
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the
range
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the
Snowy Mountains
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"Change"
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the
end of a coach stage where the horses were changed
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How
Babs Malone cut down the Field
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Boogong
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Mount
Jagungal, or the Big Bogong - peak in the Snowy Mountains where aborigines
feasted on bogong moths
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Bull’s
Peak
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mountain
peak in the Snowy Mountains
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nine
stone
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the
horse’s handicap weight for the race
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Gegederick
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district
near Berridale in the Snowy Mountains
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surcingle
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horse’s
outer girth strap
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"settling"
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when
the bets are settled
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Jack
Corrigan
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mountaineer
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mountain
horseman
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Nungar
Creek
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mountain
stream near Kiandra
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Jindabyne
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town
on the Eucumbene River downstream from Adaminaby
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Providence
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crossing
over the Eucumbene River upstream from Adaminaby
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brumbie
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wild
horse
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nobbler
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small
glass
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trap
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police
trooper
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the
River track
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track
beside the Murrumbidgee River
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Rosedale
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property
near Adaminaby, now called Bolaro
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Locker’s
Hill
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Hill
between Adaminaby and Rosedale
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Murrumbidgee
River
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rises
in the Snowy Mountains and flows to the north of Adaminaby on its way towards
Cooma
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sidlings
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steep
hillsides
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Billylingra
track
|
track
near the Murrumbidgee River to Billylingra (downstream from Cooma)
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Flat
Rock
|
rock
feature beside the Murrumbidgee River
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On
the Range
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Nungar
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mountain
range near Kiandra
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rills
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mountain
streams
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scrubber
|
mountain
horse
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sallee
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wattle
(acacia) bush/small tree
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warrigal
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wild
horse
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sidling
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side
of a steep hill
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the
Gulf
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area
near the present Tantangara Dam, where the Murrumbidgee River flows between
two steep bluffs
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muzzle-wood
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small
eucalyptus tree (stellulata) the wood of which was used to make muzzles for
young calves so as to wean them
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Yiack
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district
on the upper Murrumbidgee River between Tantangara and Adaminaby
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hop-bushes
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native
shrub
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surcingle
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horse’s
outer girth strap
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An
Easter Rhyme
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furbelow
|
flounce/pleated
border of a gown
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slaty
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made
out of slate
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ticker
|
watch
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Josephus
Riley
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occiput
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Head
(medical term for headbone)
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Jimmy
Wood
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toast
to Jimmy Wood sir!
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a man
who drinks by himself was said to take "a Jimmy Woodser" –
Henry Lawson published a poem in 1899 titled “The Old Jimmy
Woodser”
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Our
Visitor
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cob
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horse
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tanner
|
sixpence
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sculler
|
rower
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