A sketch of the Bathurst Plains from about 1820
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The creation of the inland town of Bathurst marked the beginning of the spread of European settlement west of the Blue Mountains. But it came at a huge cost to the local Aboriginal population.
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Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales SV/56
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