Across the Blue Mountains

RESOURCES

PRIME SOURCES

Gregory Blaxland: Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains of New South Wales in the year 1813

George Evans: The journal of of his journey to the Bathurst Plains in 1813

Mrs Elizabeth Hawkins Letter: a trip from Sydney to Bathurst in 1822

Governor Lachlan Macquarie's Letter to William Cox before the commencement of the Road across the Blue Mountains (1814)

Extract from the Journal of William Cox in making a road across the Blue Mountains from Emu Plains to a new country discovered by Mr. Evan (1814-5)

BLUE MOUNTAINS CROSSING

SMH - 21 May 1913: centenary article

Nepean Times - 8 August 1914: Lecture by Frank Walker on the First Crossing

SMH - May 31 1937: 124th re-enactment of the Crossing

SMH - May 14 1938: Penrith Memorial

SMH - May 16 1938: Cairns Unveiled at South Creek

SMH - May 21 1938: Penrith Memorial

SMH - 12 September 1938 : Penrith Memorial

POETRY

The Nepean - John Le Gay Brereton
A Wattle Poem - Miss Veronica Mason
Waratah and Wattle - Henry Lawson
The Blue Mountains - Henry Lawson
The Forest's Secret - Jim Low