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Here Stephens considers Adam Lindsay Gordon's legendary horseback 'leap', supposedly made at the Blue Lake fence near Mount Gambier, and attempts to separate fact from mythology.
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Following the publication of this article, in the following weeks the Sydney Morning Herald published a number of letters from readers giving their opinion on where Gordon actually made the leap, etc. These included a somewhat terse exchange between Dick Macdonald (q.v.) and Lance Skuthorp (q.v.).
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Stephens wrote a similar article on this subject which appeared in the Brisbane Courier on 22 February, 1930.
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16615137
Gordon's Leap : The Mount Gambier Monument
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
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- Mount Gambier area, South East South Australia, South Australia,
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