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form y separately published work icon The Die Hard : The Legend of Lasseter's Lost Gold Reef single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 The Die Hard : The Legend of Lasseter's Lost Gold Reef
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Traces the failed 1930 expedition by Harry Bell Lasseter to relocate the gold reef that he claimed to have found near the Warburton Ranges in Western Australia in 1897. Black-and-white photographs of the 1930 expedition and extracts from Lasseter's writings are included. Lasseter died alone during the expedition and the reef has never been found.

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon The Die Hard : The Legend of Lassiter's Reef Ivan Smith , Jocelyn Smith , Australia : ABC Radio , 1973 Z1651725 1973 single work radio play A radio adaptation of Ivan and Jocelyn Smith's film documentary of the same name, The Die Hard examines the failed 1930 expedition by Harry Lasseter to find the reef of gold he supposedly discovered in the Warburton Ranges (WA) in 1897.

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y separately published work icon The Die-Hard Ivan Smith , Jocelyn Smith , Albert Tucker (illustrator), Artarmon : Harper and Row , 1979 Z1451236 1979 single work biography
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