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Gordon's Leap : The Mount Gambier Monument single work   column  
  • Author:agent A. G. S. http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/stephens-a-g
Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 Gordon's Leap : The Mount Gambier Monument
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Here Stephens considers Adam Lindsay Gordon's legendary horseback 'leap', supposedly made at the Blue Lake fence near Mount Gambier, and attempts to separate fact from mythology.

Notes

  • Following the publication of this article, in the following weeks the Sydney Morning Herald published a number of letters from readers giving their opinion on where Gordon actually made the leap, etc. These included a somewhat terse exchange between Dick Macdonald (q.v.) and Lance Skuthorp (q.v.).

  • Stephens wrote a similar article on this subject which appeared in the Brisbane Courier on 22 February, 1930.

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Gordon's Leap : And Historical Evidence Alfred George Stephens , 1930 single work column
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 22 February no. 22487 1930; (p. 22) Here Stephens considers Adam Lindsay Gordon's legendary horseback 'leap', supposedly made at the Blue Lake fence near Mount Gambier, and attempts to separate fact from mythology.
Gordon's Leap Dick Macdonald , 1930 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 January no. 28708 1930; (p. 19)
Gordon's Leap Lance Skuthorp , 1930 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 January no. 28714 1930; (p. 9)
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Subjects:
  • Mount Gambier area, South East South Australia, South Australia,
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