Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 39
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But this won't get us to Miriam Vale. Even as a school boy good horses appealed to me, but our old black stock ? with his tail to the ground, & a piebald, a sorry pair whizzed along at five miles an hour. A horse led by Bunda for me, & the one he road (sic), were mangy from their noses to half way down their tails. Had seen mangy persons (sic) before but not mangy horses. They were weeds, as well as being mangy.
There were other horses at Miriam Vale with the mange, but taking them right thro they were a very good lot of stock horses, nearly all bred in NSW, & brought up at dispersal sales. That was only a holiday but a good one.
One of the first things done after my arrival in 1887, was to put up a four wire fence from the corner of HYDE PARK into the range "MANY PEAKS" at the head of ROUND Creek 41/4 miles, & it enclosed about 35 to 40 square miles of country of COLOSSEUM creek, & into branches HORSE creek, DINGO, OAKEY, some of the best country in Miriam