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Adventure and romance on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s-60s. A young English digger gives up drinking when he loses his big nugget after a Christmas spree. He finds it again a year later with the help of the storekeeper's daughter. Includes sober, faithful friend and a violent thief, eventually hung for murder. Tone of compassion and calm - change from early WW tales of violence, etc. Mentions resumed search for gold in Victoria in 1893 - recalls old days. (PB)
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Subjects:
- Victorian goldfields area, Victoria,
- 1850s
- 1860s
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- Victoria,
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