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EPISODE · Feb 9, 2025 · 38 MIN

Episode 154 - The Billycan Millionaire - Part 2

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James Tyson started off by providing a butchery service to prospectors on the Victorian goldfields of the 1850/60s. He went on to establish pastoral runs from Queensland to Victoria becoming a very wealthy man. In 1898 he died without leaving a will with an estate totalling about two million pounds. Banjo Patterson even wrote a poem about him!

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