CONTENTS:
Foreword p4. Early days at Devil’s River p6. The squatter’s licence p9. The town takes shape p10. The selectors; Gold discovered! p16. Progress; Commerce p19. Churches p26. Cemeteries; Schools p28. Entertainment p30. Some notable personalities: McMillan p32. Peppin; William Napper Crockett; Dr Samuel Reynolds p33. Mrs Anne Bon p35. Isaac Hopkins Kelson p38. Agricultural and pastoral activities p41. Dairying p43. Timber industry p44. Bushrangers p45. The 1890s p47. The coming of the railways p48. Into the 20th century; The Great War [World War One] p49. Mount Buller p50. Mount Stirling p55. Eildon Weir; Prince Charles; Agriculture today; ‘The man from Snowy River’ p56. Mansfield Mountain Country Festival p58. Tourism p59. The future p60. Index p62.

ILLUSTRATIONS (selected):
Footing up Tolmie Hill p3. Dr Rowe’s old station [drawing] p8. Old Wappan Station p9. Peter Walker and son, Bert Walker p10. A bark hut; Conlan’s Delatite Hotel p11. Early town map of Mansfield p13. First store in Mansfield p15. Early modes of transport to Gaffney’s Creek p18. Shire Hall p19. P.W. Walker General Store p20. Old Library, Ailsa Street, current home of historical society p21. Original Post and Telegraph Office p22. John Begley store advertisement p23. Collection of sketches of town buildings p24-5. The first St Francis Xavier Catholic Church p26. Presbyterian Church p27. Agricultural High School pictures p28. Convent of Our Lady of Mercy p29. The Mansfield Band 1909 p30. Rundel and McMillan, wheelwrights and general smiths, High Street p32. Mansfield Hospital and committee p34. Mrs Anne Fraser Bon p36. Mansfield Saleyards, about 1915 p41. Successful rabbit hunt at ‘Glen Hope’, Devil’s River Valley p42. Riding the logs as they came down the tramline on the bogey at Baker’s Creek p44. Memorial to police murdered by Kelly Gang p45. High Street, Mansfield 1890s p47. Loading chaff for market at the Mansfield Railway Yards, early 1920s p48. Mansfield soldiers, World War One: Storey, Robb, Knight, Douglas, McKay, Jebb, Bird, Williams, Reynolds, Thompson p49. Mount Buller p50. Pack horses carrying building materials for erection of Mansfield Progress Association hut p51. The hut p52. The building of Mount Buller Chalet p53. Mount Buller Chalet; Helmut Kofler p54. Craig’s Hut p57. Goulburn River at Jamieson p59.

SURNAMES / FAMILY NAMES from the index:
Adams. Amor. Anderson. Arundel. Ashfield. Aughtie. Baalwick [aborigine]. Baker. Baldry. Barak [aborigine]. Bell. Beolite [aborigine]. Bon. Bostock. Bromfield. Brown. Buller. Byrne. Cahn. Callister. Campbell. Carlisle. Chenery. Clarke. Courtney. Crockett. Cutler. Deedy. Dempsey. Dickens. Douglass. Drain. Dundas. Elvins. Ewan. Fairhead Fitzmaurice. Forsyth. Forras. Fry. Gaffney. Gemmel. Glynn. Goodman. Goodwin. Gooley. Govett. Griffin. Grimus. Grollo. Harper. Healy. Highett. Hilton-Wood. Hogan. Hume and Hovell. Hunter. Kelly. Kelson. Kett. Kennedy. Kitchen. Klingsporn. Kofler. Leticq. Lonigan. Loudin. Lovick. Lynch. Marquis of Ailsa. McCashney. McColl. McDiarmid. McDonald. McIntosh. McKenzie. McLeod. McMillan. Martin. Mitchell. Morgan. Motherwell. Munro. Nicholson. Nolan. Owens. Peppin. Player. Pollard. Power. Read. Reardon. Reynolds. Ritchie. Ross. Rowe. Scanlon. Smith. Tehan. Thompson. Tomkins. Trenfield. Usher. Von Mueller. Walker. Wardell. Wardrop and Clarke. Watson. Watson and Hunter. Waugh. Wheeler. Wills. Withers. Wright. Yewers.

FULL INDEX available on library computers: Electronic resources \ Indexes \ Mansfield

FROM THE INDEX (Place names, institutions, etc.):
Aborigines. Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Show. Allan’s Hotel. Alzburg Resort. ‘Ballowra’ property. Bank of New South Wales. ‘Banumum’ property. Barjarg. Barwite. The Battery. Bells Mill. Benevolent Association. Bentley Nursing Home. Big River. Blue Range. Boer War. Boggie Creek. Bonnie Doon. Bonnie Doon Presbyterian Church. Boorolite. Bridge Inn Hotel. Brack’s Hotel. Brankeet Creek. Broken River. Buller Creek. Burnt Hut Spur. Butcher’s Flat. Caledonian Society. Cameron’s Creek. Catholic Chapel, Church. Catholic Parish School. Chalmers Church. ‘Changue’. Church of England [Anglican]. Colonial Bank. Colonial Police Stables and Lock-up. Coranderrk Aboriginal Station. Corduroy Gap. Courier Gallery. Court House. Court House Hotel. DSM Mill. Darlingford. Delatite and Delatite Station. Delatite Cheese Factory. Delatite Free Press. Delatite Hotel. Delatite River. Delatite Tribe [aborigines]. Devil’s River country. ‘Dueran’ Run. Eildon Weir. ‘Enterprising Packers’. ‘Everyone’ newspaper. Exchange Hotel. Fletcher’s Hotel. Fords Creek. Free Library. Gaffney’s Creek. Gleeson’s Hotel. Good Templars. Goulburn. Great War, First World War. Greta. ‘Guardian’ newspaper. Horse racing. Hospital. Hospital Committee. Howes Creek and area. Howqua Hills. Howqua River. Jamieson, Jamieson River. Jericho. Justice’s Hotel. Kelson’s Hotel. King River, King Valley. Knockwood. Lake Eildon. Lankey’s Creek. Library. Lickhole Creek. Little Battery. Logan Falls. Lovick’s Hut. Loyola, Loyola Run. MacLaughlin’s Shoulder. Maindample, Maindample Park.

Mansfield: District; Brass Band; Cemetery; Courier; Electricity supply; Guardian; Independent; Historical Society; Hospital; Hotel; Progress Association; Racing Club; Shire.

Masonic Lodge. Merrijig. Merton, Merton Creek. Methodist Church. ‘Mimamaluke’ Run. Mirimbah. Mink’s Mill. Mount Battery, Mt Battery Run. Mount Buller. Mount Samaria. Mount Stirling. Murrang (aboriginal name for Mount Buller). National Bank. Oddfellows. The Paps. Piries, Piries area. Police Paddock. Police Stables and Lock-up. Post Office. Power’s Lookout. Presbyterian Church. Preston, ‘Preston’ Station. Razorback Track. Rechabites. Rosstown. Royal Hotel. Royaltown. St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. St Francis Xavier’s Church. St John’s Church of England [Anglican]. St Mary’s School and Hall. St Patrick’s Society. Scully’s. Scully’s Lane. Seven Creeks. Sheepyard Flat. Shire, Shire Council. Sisters of Mercy. Ski Club of Victoria. Smith’s Paddock. Stockyard Creek. Strathbogies, Strathbogie Ranges. Stringybark Creek. Telegraph. Ten Mile. The Battery. The Paps. Timbertop. Tolmie, Tolmie Plateau. Tolmie sports. Upper Goulburn district. Upper Goulburn tribes. Victoria Hall. Wappan, Wappan homestead, station. Wappang. Warrambat. Water Trust. Wombat Hills. Woods Point. Yarra-Yarra tribe [aborigines]. Yarra Track. Youngillam tribe [aborigines].