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- ↑ "Funding to seal 40km of The Wool Track – The Cobar Weekly". cobarweekly.com.au. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ↑ "'Wool Track' sealing 'feasible'". ABC News. 4 May 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ↑ "On the wool track / by C. E. W. Bean ; illustrated with photographs by George Bell - Catalogue | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ↑ "New Books". Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser. 14 January 1926. p. 9. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ↑ "George Bell :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online". www.daao.org.au. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ↑ Grattan, Michelle (2004). Back on the Wool Track. Random House Australia. ISBN 9781740511674.