Now just a pile of stone, the hotel's ruins lie hidden in Victoria's high country. But a precious piece of record-keeping from the 1890s is providing clues to its past.
Now just a pile of black basalt among a thicket of gnarly elderberry trees, the ruins of Gow's Hotel on the Dargo High Plains lie in an alpine meadow, ringed by stunted snow gums.
They came to pay homage to the past, and to present a ledger from the hotel to a representative of the local Stratford Historical Society. Among them were goldminers, some of whom paid their bills with gold, road contractors, stockmen, local residents and travellers. The inventory provides clues to the everyday hardships of the age — meals of boiled beef, beef hearts, tails and kidneys — along with sales of liquor and food staples such as flour and salt.The Government says they are "large invasive herbivores", the Maguires say they're a cultural icon. While the battle of the brumbies will be heard in court, this cattleman says a judge won't stop him saving Victoria's wild horses.
He carried the post on horseback until he encountered snow on the higher slopes — at which point he donned rudimentary snowshoes, gripped snow poles and slung on a backpack, for a three-day return journey in all weather, even blizzards.He and other family members spent their boyhoods as alpine mailmen, as well as mustering cattle on their snow country lease.
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