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Log hauling spelt the end for “young giant”

1917 – At just 11 years old, Clide Avery was already the size of some grown men, almost six foot tall. But he didn’t get to experience manhood. He was helping his father drive a horse-drawn wagon hauling a seven-ton load of logs into Narrabri. The family lived at Eulah Creek, a 15-minute drive eastContinue reading “Log hauling spelt the end for “young giant””

Bringing in the cows

Eight-year-old Archie was sent “out after cows’’ at his parents’ property 12 miles from Condobolin, NSW, one Saturday afternoon. His horse came home riderless about 20 minutes later, and the boy was found unconscious about 400 metres from the house. From an open gate and a stirrup iron lying close to the body, it wasContinue reading “Bringing in the cows”