GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 8 - WHAT WAS MARK TWAINS IMPRESSION OF AUSTRALIA'S GOLDFIELDS?

Gold Rush Stories - Part 8 - What Was Mark Twain's Impression of Australia's Goldfields?

GOLD RUSH STORIES - SERIES INTRODUCTION Miners in Gulgong region 1870's Historical image historical series

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Alongside the Squattocracy and pastoral leases, the prime catalyst for the opening up of Australia’s interior to further exploration, settlement and surveying, was the discovery of ‘payable gold’ in 1851.

The politics of the time is a fascinating journey into the events that magnify the aspirations and realities of a fledging colony.

The times and places of those formative years of self-determination as a nation-state and common bonds amongst countrymen.

Casting off the shackles of empire both literal and figurative, some with more obvious success than others, and none without consequence.

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Arriving at Ballarat in 1895, Author Mark Twain saw first-hand the incredible economic, political, and social legacies of the Australian gold rushes. Mark Twain famously described the hordes of hopefuls who had rushed to Australia’s gold fields as

"a driving, vigorous restless population … an assemblage of two hundred thousand young men – not simpering, dainty, kid-gloved weaklings, but stalwart, muscular, dauntless young braves… 

The only population of the kind that the world has ever seen gathered together… not likely that the world will ever see it’s like again”.

Mark Twain, J.F. Archibald And Henry Lawson

Mark Twain, J.F. Archibald And Henry Lawson

REFERENCES

https://livingartlifestyle.com/blogs/lawson-son-of-a-suffragette/lawson-son-of-a-suffragette-part-2-setting-the-scene-the-backstory-origins-of-a-nation 
View from top of Mt Panorama race circuit in Bathurst GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 9 - VENTURING WEST - BATHURST; FIRST SETTLEMENT WEST OF THE DIVIDE
Cradling for gold outside Charters Towers - State Library of Queensland,
Cradling for gold outside Charters Towers - State Library of Queensland
Over a total of three years, this mine took £795,000's worth of gold. 

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 Cox Road to Bathurst historical information sign GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 9 - VENTURING WEST - BATHURST; FIRST SETTLEMENT WEST OF THE DIVIDE
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Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton exhibition display about The Golden Fleece and the Squatocracy GOLD RUSH STORIES - PART 7 - WHAT WAS THE THE SQUATOCRACY?

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A polymathic touring musician, film maker, historian and producer, for the past 8 years Kieran Wicks has navigated the Great Southern Land of Australia performing hundreds of shows to ravenous audiences, whilst simultaneously developing a vast catalogue of interviews, images and videos in the production of multiple formative docuseries including 'One Town at a Time', which records his musical journey, immersed in poignant, forgotten Australian history and poetry, in archives such as 'Gold Rush Stories' and 'Poetry of the Pioneers'.

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