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William James O'Leary : ウィキペディア英語版 | William James O'Leary
William James O'Leary (born 28 October 1865 at Tuapeka〔Alwyn Owen. ('O'Leary, William - Biography' ), from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 1-Sep-10〕). He was a bushman, and spent many years looking for gold in the Arawata River area, and never struck it rich, dying in 1947.〔Miller. F.W.G. (1947) Golden Days of Lake County. Whitcomb and Toombes〕 Together with his mare Dolly, he wandered around the Westland for decades looking for gold.〔Mary P. Bull ('New Zealand Tales and Tours: South Island Adventures' )〕 In 1953 poet Denis Glover wrote ''Arawata Bill'' immortalizing him as the solitary New Zealand prospector.〔http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=38155&page=15〕 O'Leary's Paddock is a street in Queenstown named after him. ==References==
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