Wild ride : the rise and fall of Cobb & Co

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Wild ride : the rise and fall of Cobb & Co
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the rise and fall of Cobb & Co
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Sam Everingham
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Wild ride
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the rise and fall of Cobb and Co
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  • eng
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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
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388.3228
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non fiction
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