Penned by the man himself... Jan. 1900 article

Neat find!

Great history lesson...

Neat story but I think it a little embellished ...so,... he walks 18 miles off road through the bush in the middle of the night at a "a rate of speed the would be envied" and then sees a light and finds several people still up... he then heads back the same 18 miles carrying a saddle... I think he forgot to mention it was 'uphill both ways'.

Folks were a lot tougher back then! And survivors.

Town had a comeback, apparently. Still there.

Fascinating discriptions of the time, wildlife and Tough people. Thanks

I took a little virtual 'walkabout' on google maps, this it the terrain today, don't know if it was similar in 1882.

This is just outside of town going east -


This is a few miles farther east near a forest area -

Allowed to depart I'll say! Carrying the saddle 18 miles back to camp!

There's a state forest just a few miles east of town now, so I'd say it likely had quite a few trees back then as well.

I think if I went looking for a saddle... I would have taken the horse with me and rode back!

An accounting from 18 years earlier.

600 miles at 18 miles per day = 33 days.

They had come around 400 miles when they reached Condamine.

How did they determine how far they had traveled in a day? Estimate based on hours?

I wonder how many acres that ranch covered, how many cattle, how many workers? Long trip for supplies.

Keep digging Rick! Good read.

I'll give him some slack....When I walked 8 miles one day, it seemed like 18....

Might be a good place to have a Savage Fest. We could retrace his 18 mile route. Anybody got a saddle? Trouble is the town isn't empty now.