Galloping Jones and Other True Stories from Australia's History flood and very occasional plenty

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The author is well known Top End fishing and bush writer

The Tides that Lie: Two sisters

In the early 1850s everyone knows that the Murray River has potential for river traffic

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Galloping Jones and Other True Stories from Australia's History flood and very occasional plentyTrade Paperback. 260 pages. $24. 90 plus $7. 40 postage and handling. New edition, fully revised and updated with dozens more stories added. John Decy "Galloping" Jones was a bare knuckle fighting larrikin who could tame any horse. Moondyne Joe escaped prison using an ingenious plan that made a whole colony laugh. Caroline Coleman was a settler who raised her children in Western Queensland, and buried her husband behind the store they built near the