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Issue Details: First known date: 1893... 1893 Stolen Gold
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1854. Romance on the Ballarat diggings against a backdrop of the Eureka revolt. Young Frank West saves the daughter of a dead American digger from a fire at a low tavern, and takes on her guardianship, finding her respectable accommodation with a prosperous family. He also tracks down and wins back her gold inheritance stolen from a friend of her father's, murdered as he was planning to return it to her. True love follows. Includes a sly grog shanty, the Eureka rebellion, etc. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 28 no. 334 March 1893 Z1069280 1893 periodical issue 1893 pg. 377-383
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  • Ballarat, Ballarat area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
  • 1854
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