ePub Wolford's Cavalry: The Colonel; the War in the West; and the Emancipation Question in Kentucky by Dan Lee in History

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In 1860; an expedition set out from Melbourne; Australia; into the interior of the country; with the mission to find a route to the northern coast. Headed by Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills; the party of adventurers; scientists; and camels set out into the outback hoping to find enough water and to keep adequate food stores for their trek into the bush. Almost one year later; Burke; Wills; and two others from their party; Gray and King; reached the northern shore but on their journey back; they were stranded at Cooper’s Creek where all but King perished. Cooper’s Creek is a gripping; intense historical narrative about the harshness of the Australian outback and the people who were brave enough to go into the very depths of that uncharted country.