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"The old stage coach has been pushed off the roads by the motor, but the ghosts of the romantic past will ever linger." (The Sydney Mail, 1921) Explore the beginnings of the 'American Telegraph Line of Coaches' that became Cobb and Co. "John Murray Peck, Freeman Cobb, James Swanton and John Lamber, as partners, originated Cobb and Co. on the Bendigo road on January 1, 1854-the famous coaching firm, whose name and fame afterwards spread all over the five Australian mainland states." (1942 Memoirs of a Stockman, p.16)Follow the journey of coaching, the delivery of Her Majesty's mail, and the development of the 'iron horse' as your journey along The Great Northern Road, the track from Sydney to Brisbane. Climb aboard the box seat and be entertained by the 'whip' (driver)--skilled and courageous--as you take a longer stop in and around Tenterfield ... where coaches were frequently 'bailed up' and robbed by bushrangers."The bushranger most associated with Tenterfield in the late sixties and 1870 was Fred Ward, known as Thunderbolt." (Tenterfield, 1949, p.28) "He was an old 'Cockatoo' bird, and one of the few prisoners who escaped from that gruesome island. The escape was effected on September 11th, 1863, and Ward had for a companion in his flight a fellow convict named Britten ..." (Capt. Thunderbolt, 29 Mar 1866, p.2)What makes this Cobb and Co. Book Series different? To share the positive history of how Cobb and Co., and the postal service, contributed to the great Australia of today, fragments written during the 1800s to mid-1900s have been selected to tell the story, hence 'history is speaking for itself'. Included are "tales of adventure, gold rushes, bushrangers, brave pioneers, drought, death, flood ... "Cobb and Co. "a romance almost as old as Queensland itself, the romance of the famous coaching days of Australia ? the hardy men who kept the roads open ? brave men and horses that made the bush ring with the rattle, trot, trot, clicketty clack of iron-shod wheel and hoof." (Cobb and Co's Coaching Days, 30 Jun 1929, p.23)

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