Along the tracks of Cobb and Co. - The Great Northern Road

<p>The old <strong>stagecoach may have vanished from the roads</strong> overtaken by the motor age but the <strong>ghosts of its romantic past still linger</strong>.</p><p></p><p>Embark on a journey into the <strong>legendary beginnings</strong> of the <strong>'American Telegraph Line of Coaches'</strong>-the enterprise that became Cobb and Co. On January 1 1854 John Murray Peck Freeman Cobb James Swanton and John Lamber <strong>launched Cobb and Co. on the Bendigo road</strong> sparking a legacy that would spread across all five Australian mainland states.</p><p></p><p>Travel through the golden age of coaching the delivery of Her Majesty's mail and the rise of the iron horse as you journey <strong>The Great Northern Road</strong> the historic route connecting Sydney and Brisbane. Experience the thrill and danger alongside skilled and fearless whips (drivers) as you make an extended stop in and around Tenterfield where <strong>coaches were frequently 'bailed up' and robbed by bushrangers.</strong></p><p></p><p>Among them was the notorious <strong>Fred Ward known as Thunderbolt</strong>-Tenterfield's most infamous bushranger of the <strong>late 1860s and 1870s</strong>. A former 'Cockatoo' prisoner Ward was one of the few to escape from the dreaded island fleeing with fellow convict Britten on September 11 1863.</p><p></p><p>This book brims with <strong>tales of adventure gold rushes bushrangers resilient pioneers drought death and flood</strong>. Cobb and Co. represents a romance almost as old as Queensland itself-<strong>the rattle trot trot clicketty clack of iron-shod wheels and hooves echoing through Australia's past.</strong></p>