He returned to Mt Murchison, and they later moved to Adelaide, travelling, against advice, over the Barrier Ranges, risking death from thirst on what would have been a hot dry journey to Mingary (South Australia).
George Raines was a landless bushman "who roamed the bush with his stock, squatting on the unfenced runs wherever he found good feed".
Wallace embarked on a trek from Sturts Meadow in January 1880 heading north to the properties he had acquired leases to in the Northern Territory along the Roper River in 1879.
[6] Matilda Wallace anonymously published a pamphlet Twelve years' life in Australia, from 1859 to 1871,[7] which was discovered and identified by Alfred Thomas Saunders in 1922.
[11] By 1924 the area was being plagued by dingos, Sturts Meadows had been carrying flocks of up to 100,000 sheep but since the pest arrived numbers had dropped substantially.
On April 3, 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 5,600 hectares around this gorge had been fenced off to protect the environment and the remains of a tin mine.