A broken-down wagon still stood against the platform.

It was rough and narrow, and flanked by broken-down wagons and the scrawny carcasses of asses and unicorns.

We keep the shrine in order and the offerings coming, we keep the fountain clean, we move broken-down wagons, dead bodies-mostly animals-and we shift the rubble when a building falls down.

Men, maddened because they could not get by or go ahead at trail passes blocked by broken-down wagons and teams, fought and killed each other.

With only a broken-down wagon to show as a result of our efforts, we continued our way on foot.

Local lore speaks of Tennant Creek being founded on beer: first settled when the drivers of a broken-down beer-laden wagon settled in to consume the freight.

Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a deserted land.

Some of those, with no room to pull aside, were choked off by broken-down wagons.

What remains are mostly miners cottages (log cabins with tin roofs), a couple of broken-down wagons stranded in the waist-high grass, and a post office and saloon.

Lost survivors, evidently, with two broken-down wagons hauled by animals half-dead and led by men who looked no better.