Brief diary entries Monday 26 January 1987 Leave Orange. Cowra, Young, Lunch Cootamundra, Gundegai 2 x dog + tuckerbox. 3 x long bridge. Hot dry. Scenery and weather. Tarcutta pop 350 Fan belt gone. PC Joan. ".... its origins lie firmly in the Australian bush and the early pioneers - who in this case forged west and south from the colonial headquarters in Sydney, following the explorers searching for the source of the Murrumbidgee River. Numbers of them took up holdings in the Gundagai district in the period 1830-50 They were hard and hazardous times with supplies and stores having to be transported along makeshift tracks over rough terrain by bullock teams. To pass the time while often being bogged, or for the river level to fall at crossings such as Muttama Creek near Gundagai, 'bullockies'
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