Urban legend has it that Steve Hart and Dan Kelly first worked on the Palmer River goldfields in the mid-1880s before heading south to Mareeba, where they joined Harry Readford, also known as “Captain Starlight”, on his epic droving trips through western Queensland and beyond.
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