Introduction

'Makin' Wages'

a chronicle of the Meroo Goldfields
1850-1856

‘..when the honourable the Legislative Council saw that many headed animal of burden, ‘the mob’, so much excited by the gold fever, they were afraid it might go on to delirium, and then the animal would become unmanageable..’
(‘The Bullock Driver’ in the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal, 19th of March, 1853)

Map 1 - Meroo River Goldfields (Spicers Creek to Richardsons Point).

Map 2 - Meroo River Goldfields (Richardsons Point to Avisford).

Map 3 - Meroo River Goldfields (Avisford to Worlds End)

Map 4 - Western Goldfields, NSW

Map 5 - The diggers' route to the Meroo Goldfields from Jerrys Plains.

Map 6 - The diggers' route from the Hunter Valley to the Meroo Goldfields.

'Makin' Wages'

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