HERITAGE: Dream destroyed by long, dry days

By Michelle Hoctor
Updated May 31 2013 - 8:21pm, first published 5:03pm

When an Illawarra dairyman decided to seek his fortune "on the arid prairies of California" in the early 1870s, he discovered that the US grass was far from greener.

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