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The Passing of the Frontier

CHAPTER I
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Now that has been the fashion of the frontier in every age and every land of all the world.

And so, by studying these people, we may even yet arrive at a just and comprehensive notion of what we might call the "feel" of the old frontier.
There exists, too, yet another Saxon frontier in a far-off portion of the world.

In that strange country, Australia, tremendous unknown regions still remain, and the wild pastoral life of such regions bids fair to exist yet for many years.

A cattle king of Queensland held at one time sixty thousand square miles of land.

It is said that the average size of pastoral holdings in the northern territory of Australia is two hundred and seventy-five thousand acres.


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