CONTENTS
Illustrations vi. Preface vii. Introduction ix. Chapter 1: The background p1. Happy-Go-Lucky p7. The village p12. The struggle for a school p20. The pack trail p28. The tracks reach out p36. Accidents and incidents p46. Towards a new century p51. The changing years p56. The twilight years p66. Vale Happy-Go-Lucky p73. Appendix 1: An extract from Dickers Mining Record 1900 p77. Appendix 2: Butler’s Woods Point and Gippsland Directory 1868 p78. Appendix 3: Bailliere’s Victorian Directory 1868: Happy-Go-Lucky district p80. Main published sources p81. Index p83. About the authors Dorothy and Marjorie Morgan (inside back cover).

ILLUSTRATIONS
Charles Collins with members of the family at Walhalla, packing pipes for the mines p1. Early Walhalla, old Brunton Road entering from the upper right p2. Coaching up the Little Joe Hill to Happy-Go-Lucky p6. George Graham and his wife Margaret p7. Scrip certificate October 1869 for Happy-go-Lucky Gold and Quartz Mining Company p9. Miners at the Eureka Gold Mining Company mine at Happy-Go-Lucky p10. William Pearson, pastoralist and politician, after whom Pearsontown was named p12. Township plan of Happy-Go-Lucky with names of property owners p14. Plan of the mines at Happy-Go-Lucky p16. Happy-Go-Lucky in 1886 with the Collins building on the left p18. Miners at the entrance to the Happy-go-lucky mine p21. Wood cutters at Happy-Go-Lucky p25. Collins’ pack horses on the track to the diggings p29. Map of the district p30. Mrs Charles Collins p34. Scrip certificate February 1870 for Northern and Eastern Happy Go Lucky Gold Mining Company p36. Scrip certificate March 1887 for The Wulfsode Gold Mining Company p37. Flourbag Cutting on the Toongabbie-Walhalla Road about 1886 p39. Little Joe Hill with snow-covered Baw Baw Plateau in the distance p47. Ostlers Creek, a stopping place between Toongabbie and Happy-Go-Lucky, about 1886 p48. Scrip certificate August 1891 for The New Happy-Go-Lucky Gold Mining Company p51. Charles Collins riding past the Luxford’s home, his home, store and stables are in the background p53. Gala day at the wood-chop and sports carnival [group scene in front of ‘A. Norman’s Union Hotel’] p57. Wood-chop competition at Happy-Go-Lucky p57. Quartz crushing battery at Toombon about 1886 p62. Long Tunnel miners p67. The last teacher, Madge Dixon, with pupils including Margery (Ross) Adamson on the left p69. Alice Collins with members of her family at Happy-Go-Lucky p73.

SURNAMES / FAMILY NAMES from the index:
Adamson. Aitken. Alderson. Alexander. Anderson. Barber. Bell. Black. Bloomfield. Brown. Buntine. Burg. Cain. Campbell. Canali. Carpenter. Clissold. Clarke. Clement. Clerk. Coates. Cole. Collins. Connelly. Cook. Craig. Cullen. Davis. Day. Dendy. Dent. Dilworth. Dixon. Donnelly. Duff. Duval. Earl. Elkington. Ford. Fulton. Gartrelle. Gibson and Knox. Gilder. Graham. Gray. Griffiths. Hadden. Hair. Hall. Hambrook. Hammill. Harding. Harris. Hartrick. Hatfield. Hayes. Height. Henry. Ireson. Ireland. Jolly. Kelberg. Kiernan. Knox. Laver. Lee. Luxford. Mackay. Mark. Martin. Masters. Morgan. Morton. McEvoy. McGregor. McLean. McMillan. Neander. Norman. Norris. O’Brien. O’Toole. Parker. Parry. Pearson. Peart. Pederson. Phillips. Price. Randall. Rawson. Rosales. Richardson. Ross. Sanders. Saunders. Schilling. Sexton. Sherwood. Shugg. Speakman. Spetts. Stanley. Stringer. Svenson. Struss. Taylor and Carpenter. Taylor. Tempest. Templeton. Thompson. Tisdall. Topp. Volger. Weekes. Williams. Wood.

Full index available on library computers: Electronic resources \ indexes (alphabetically by name of place).