Australian Stories from our Past

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E21 - Off to the Rush - North West Corner to Lake Bonney

E21 - Off to the Rush - North West Corner to Lake Bonney20 Feb35 min

Send us Fan Mail A river can be a map, a memory, and a meeting place all at once. We follow the Murray’s sweep from Charles Sturt’s gruelling 1830 voyage and the collapse of the inland sea myth, to Joseph Hawdon’s cattle drive that carved the overland stock route, and then into the gritty detail of our 1852 party wrestling a stubborn Timor pony through sand toward Overland Corner and Lake Bonney. The story unfolds in raw diary lines, vivid landscapes, and the older truths of Count...