The Resource Wild ride : the rise and fall of Cobb & Co, Sam Everingham
Wild ride : the rise and fall of Cobb & Co, Sam Everingham
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- Summary
- In 1853, a young American arrived in the new colony of Victoria hoping to make his fortune from the world's greatest gold rush. He soon realised that the real money was to be made from the miners' need to travel from the fields where they found their gold to the towns where they spent it, and established a coach company that would literally carry his name into every household in the land: Cobb & Co. But Freeman Cobb himself was long gone by the time the company bearing his name became an Australian legend. Wild Ride is the story of the two extraordinary men, James Rutherford and Frank Whitney, who along with their business partners took Cobb's humble company and made it into the Qantas of its day. These were pioneers, carving a path through otherwise impassable terrain, settling unsettled land, enduring bushrangers and terrible accidents, and making their fortunes. The Rutherford and Whitney families became two of the most significant of their era, unrivalled in their influence and, finally, vicious in their falling out
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xii, 308 p., [16] p. of plates
- Note
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- Contents: Introduction --Pt. 1. Young entrepreneurs: 1853-1864 --Pt. 2. The boom years: 1865-1882 --Pt. 3. A certain station in life: 1883-1895 --Pt. 4. A battle of wills: 1895-1929
- Bibliography: p. 302-306
- Contents
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- Part 1. Young entrepreneurs : 1853-1864 --1. Freeman Cobb
- 4. James Rutherford --5. Consortium
- 6. Expansion into New South Wales-- Part 2. Boom years : 1865-1882 --9. Expansion into Queensland
- 10. Diversification
- 12. Roads, routes and passengers
- Part 3. A certain station in life : 1883-1895
- 14. Status and power
- 15. Financial collapse
- 16. Descent into lunacy
- Part 4. A battle of wills : 1895-1929
- 17. Painful division
- 18. Legal challenges
- Death of coaching
- Isbn
- 9780670029174
- Label
- Wild ride : the rise and fall of Cobb & Co
- Title
- Wild ride
- Title remainder
- the rise and fall of Cobb & Co
- Statement of responsibility
- Sam Everingham
- Title variation
- Wild ride
- Title variation remainder
- the rise and fall of Cobb and Co
- Language
-
- eng
- eng
- Summary
- In 1853, a young American arrived in the new colony of Victoria hoping to make his fortune from the world's greatest gold rush. He soon realised that the real money was to be made from the miners' need to travel from the fields where they found their gold to the towns where they spent it, and established a coach company that would literally carry his name into every household in the land: Cobb & Co. But Freeman Cobb himself was long gone by the time the company bearing his name became an Australian legend. Wild Ride is the story of the two extraordinary men, James Rutherford and Frank Whitney, who along with their business partners took Cobb's humble company and made it into the Qantas of its day. These were pioneers, carving a path through otherwise impassable terrain, settling unsettled land, enduring bushrangers and terrible accidents, and making their fortunes. The Rutherford and Whitney families became two of the most significant of their era, unrivalled in their influence and, finally, vicious in their falling out
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Everingham, Sam
- Dewey number
- 388.3228
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Rutherford, James
- Whitney, William Franklin
- Cobb and Co
- Coaching
- Transportation
- u-at---
- Label
- Wild ride : the rise and fall of Cobb & Co, Sam Everingham
- Note
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- Contents: Introduction --Pt. 1. Young entrepreneurs: 1853-1864 --Pt. 2. The boom years: 1865-1882 --Pt. 3. A certain station in life: 1883-1895 --Pt. 4. A battle of wills: 1895-1929
- Bibliography: p. 302-306
- Bibliography note
- Bibliography: p. [302]-306
- Contents
- Part 1. Young entrepreneurs : 1853-1864 --1. Freeman Cobb -- 4. James Rutherford --5. Consortium -- 6. Expansion into New South Wales-- Part 2. Boom years : 1865-1882 --9. Expansion into Queensland -- 10. Diversification -- 12. Roads, routes and passengers -- Part 3. A certain station in life : 1883-1895 -- 14. Status and power -- 15. Financial collapse -- 16. Descent into lunacy -- Part 4. A battle of wills : 1895-1929 -- 17. Painful division -- 18. Legal challenges -- Death of coaching
- Control code
- 000041121091
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xii, 308 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670029174
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill., maps, ports.
- Label
- Wild ride : the rise and fall of Cobb & Co, Sam Everingham
- Note
-
- Contents: Introduction --Pt. 1. Young entrepreneurs: 1853-1864 --Pt. 2. The boom years: 1865-1882 --Pt. 3. A certain station in life: 1883-1895 --Pt. 4. A battle of wills: 1895-1929
- Bibliography: p. 302-306
- Bibliography note
- Bibliography: p. [302]-306
- Contents
- Part 1. Young entrepreneurs : 1853-1864 --1. Freeman Cobb -- 4. James Rutherford --5. Consortium -- 6. Expansion into New South Wales-- Part 2. Boom years : 1865-1882 --9. Expansion into Queensland -- 10. Diversification -- 12. Roads, routes and passengers -- Part 3. A certain station in life : 1883-1895 -- 14. Status and power -- 15. Financial collapse -- 16. Descent into lunacy -- Part 4. A battle of wills : 1895-1929 -- 17. Painful division -- 18. Legal challenges -- Death of coaching
- Control code
- 000041121091
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xii, 308 p., [16] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670029174
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Other physical details
- ill., maps, ports.
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