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Victorian frontier memoirs and a deadly cattle drive
The fragment recounts 1858 Victoria leading figure Larobs writing to settlers about gold prospects, a long trek with cattle near Barker's Creek, and a violent ambush where Leo and others are wounded. Knight and Bowman's party appear. a caravan is attacked, men killed, and natives blamed in a tense frontier clash with surviving details from the memoir.
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Victoria
Mr. Larobs
Shor Walil
Jamea Graham
MDC
Grother Kanwevlf
Te Boot
Angus Mnaughton
Doris Herrmans
Birmingham
Joba
Fou Bolts
Whudas Sand
Minorias
Lindos
Thaliive Sas
Rhodes
Bette
Barker
Porcet Creoke
Thurgraves
Isaam
Tania
Yili
Uesesaian
Smeaton
Hana Wa
Bowian
Bowman
Molticon
Loddon
Jim Avoor
Seaton
Coghill
Williga
Murda
Lnst
Tsai
Leo
Wiliams
Bret
Trayner
Willian Proemin
Bosomas
Benin
Utenna
Yauleil