James Harding (1838 – 13 November 1864) was a pastoralist and explorer in colonial Western Australia. Year 1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Pastoralism or pastoral farming is the branch of Agriculture concerned with the raising of Livestock. This article is about a type of political territory For other uses see Colony (disambiguation. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. While exploring in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1864, he was murdered by Australian Aborigines. The Kimberley is one of the nine Regions of Western Australia. This is an article about a class of people as identified and defined within Australian law

Born in England in 1838, James Harding emigrated to Western Australia with his family on the Dromo in 1846. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland He went to England again in 1848 but returned to Western Australia in 1850. In 1859 he was farming at York with Charles Wittenoom. For other places named York, see York (disambiguation. York is the oldest inland town in Western Australia, situated Charles Horne Wittenoon ( 6 December 1879 – 18 September 1969) Australian Politician, was a Member of the Western Australian

In April 1861, Harding volunteered to join an exploring expedition to the Pilbara region of Western Australia, under Francis Gregory. Year 1861 ( MDCCCLXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common For the Fly Genus, see Pilbara (fly. The Pilbara is a Francis Thomas Gregory ( 19 October 1821 – 24 October 1888) was an English -born Australian explorer and Politician The five month long expedition discovered large amounts of poor pastoral land around the De Grey River.

In 1864, an expedition to Camden Harbour was undertaken to test the claims of a convict, Henry Wildman, who claimed to have found gold there many years earlier. Henry Wildman (born 1838 date of death unknown was a Convict transported to Western Australia in 1862 whose apparently false claims to have found No gold was found, but large areas of good pastoral land were discovered around Roebuck Bay. Consequently, a public company, the Roebuck Bay Company, was formed to establish a chain of stations in the area. A ranch is an area of landscape including various structures given primarily to the practice of ranching the practice of raising grazing livestock such as Cattle James Harding was chosen as manager, and in October 1864 he joined the advance party that sailed to the area to set up a base camp. The following month, Harding, along with Frederick Panter and William Goldwyer set out from their base camp to explore the area around La Grange Bay. Frederick Kennedy Panter (1836– 13 November 1864) was a Policeman, pastoralist and explorer in colonial Western Australia William Goldwyer (August 1829– 13 November 1864) was a police officer and explorer in colonial Western Australia. The Panter, Harding and Goldwyer expedition of 1864 did not return, and eventually a search party under Maitland Brown was sent to find them. Maitland Brown ( 17 July 1843 &ndash 8 May 1905) was an explorer, Politician and pastoralist in colonial Brown's La Grange expedition party eventually found the three men dead, having been clubbed and speared to death by natives. The La Grange expedition was a search expedition carried out in the vicinity of La Grange Bay in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1865 Panter and Harding were apparently killed in their sleep. Goldwyer's death was harder to interpret; some sources claim that all three men were killed in their sleep, while others assert that Goldwyer was keeping watch. The date of death of the men was determined from the date of the last entries in the men's journals.

The bodies of Panter, Harding and Goldwyer were returned to Perth, where thousands of spectators attended their public funeral. A funeral is a Ceremony marking a person's Death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of Beliefs and practices used by a Culture to remember In February 1913, a monument to Brown and the three murdered men, the Explorers' Monument, was unveiled in Fremantle. The Explorers' Monument is a monument located on The Esplanade in Fremantle, Western Australia. Fremantle (commonly known as Freo is a Port City in Western Australia, located southwest of Perth, the state capital at the mouth of

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• Erickson, Rica (ed. Frederica Lucy "Rica" Erickson AM, nee Sandilands, (born 10 August 1908) is an Australian naturalist, botanical ) (1979). Dictionary of Western Australians 1829–1914. Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 0-85564-163-0.  
• Forrest, Kay (1996). The Challenge and the Chance: The Colonisation and Settlement of North West Australia 1861–1914. Victoria Park, Western Australia: Hesperian Press. ISBN 0-85905-217-6.