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Author Keenan, Michael, 1943-

Title The horses too are gone / Michael Keenan
Published Sydney : Bantam Books, 1998

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 W'BOOL  636.2084 Kee/Hta  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 348 pages ; 20 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction -- 1. Myall Plains -- Reconnaissance -- 3. The first lift -- 4. The forbidden mare -- 5. The grass generals -- 6. The high plains of death -- 7. Race against time -- 8. The black hole -- 9. The wild bunch -- 10. Stake-out -- 11. Dwellers of the rangelands -- 12. Bore crisis -- 13. Stampede -- 14. An autumn of reflection -- 15. Tableland camp -- 16. The shadows of anxiety -- 17. The dilemma -- 18. Gorge camp attack -- 19. The dingo and the omen -- 20. Rescue -- Epilogue
Summary Biographical account of life on cattle stations hit by drought in NSW and Queensland
Analysis Queensland
Farms
Drought
Cattle industry
Autobiography
Rural and regional affairs
Social conditions
Notes Cover subtitle: The true story of an Australian farmer's struggle to save his cattle during devastating drought
Subject Keenan, Michael.
Keenan, Michael, 1943-
Cattle -- Feeding and feeds -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Cattle -- Feeding and feeds -- Australia.
Cattle -- Effect of drought on -- Australia.
Cattle drives -- Australia.
Cattle droving -- Queensland
Cattle droving -- New South Wales
Cattle -- Feeding and feeds -- Australia -- Queensland.
Droughts -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Droughts.
Cattle.
Country life.
Cattle -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Cattle -- Australia -- Queensland.
SUBJECT Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 -- 1990-2001
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 -- 1990-
Queensland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004089 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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