The old stagecoach may have vanished from the roads, overtaken by the motor age, but the ghosts of its romantic past still linger.
Embark on a journey into the legendary beginnings of the ‘American Telegraph Line of Coaches’—the enterprise that became Cobb and Co. On January 1, 1854, John Murray Peck, Freeman Cobb, James Swanton, and John Lamber launched Cobb and Co. on the Bendigo road, sparking a legacy that would spread across all five Australian mainland states.
Travel through the golden age of coaching, the delivery of Her Majesty’s mail, and the rise of the iron horse, as you journey The Great Northern Road, the historic route connecting Sydney and Brisbane. Experience the thrill and danger alongside skilled and fearless whips (drivers) as you make an extended stop in and around Tenterfield, where coaches were frequently ‘bailed up’ and robbed by bushrangers.
Among them was the notorious Fred Ward, known as Thunderbolt—Tenterfield’s most infamous bushranger of the late 1860s and 1870s. A former ‘Cockatoo’ prisoner, Ward was one of the few to escape from the dreaded island, fleeing with fellow convict Britten on September 11, 1863.
This book brims with tales of adventure, gold rushes, bushrangers, resilient pioneers, drought, death, and flood. Cobb and Co. represents "a romance almost as old as Queensland itself"--the rattle, trot, trot, clicketty clack of iron-shod wheels and hooves echoing through Australia’s past.
Embark on a journey into the legendary beginnings of the ‘American Telegraph Line of Coaches’—the enterprise that became Cobb and Co. On January 1, 1854, John Murray Peck, Freeman Cobb, James Swanton, and John Lamber launched Cobb and Co. on the Bendigo road, sparking a legacy that would spread across all five Australian mainland states.
Travel through the golden age of coaching, the delivery of Her Majesty’s mail, and the rise of the iron horse, as you journey The Great Northern Road, the historic route connecting Sydney and Brisbane. Experience the thrill and danger alongside skilled and fearless whips (drivers) as you make an extended stop in and around Tenterfield, where coaches were frequently ‘bailed up’ and robbed by bushrangers.
Among them was the notorious Fred Ward, known as Thunderbolt—Tenterfield’s most infamous bushranger of the late 1860s and 1870s. A former ‘Cockatoo’ prisoner, Ward was one of the few to escape from the dreaded island, fleeing with fellow convict Britten on September 11, 1863.
This book brims with tales of adventure, gold rushes, bushrangers, resilient pioneers, drought, death, and flood. Cobb and Co. represents "a romance almost as old as Queensland itself"--the rattle, trot, trot, clicketty clack of iron-shod wheels and hooves echoing through Australia’s past.
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