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Author Barker, H. M. (Herbert M.), 1887-

Title Droving days / by H.M. Barker
Published Melbourne ; London : Pitman, 1966

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 W'PONDS  636.083 BAR  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 147 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 folded map ; 22 cm
Contents Introductory -- Joseph Hawdon -- James Tyson -- Oscar de Satge -- George Sutherland and Bob Gray -- Nat Buchanan -- Rosert Christison and A.J. Cotton -- The Rigours of Droving -- The Pleasures of Droving -- Incidents in a Mustering Camp -- A Diversity of Bushcraft -- Horses -- Horse-Breaking -- Shoeing Horses -- Aborigines as Stockmen -- The Decline of Droving
Summary p.10, 12; Contact with Aborigines by Hawdon, Murray River, l838; p. 34-36; Hostile Aborigines met by Sutherland, l860s (Gregory River, Lake Mary, Queensland); p.75-76; Native women as shearers, De Grey River; p.133-141; Ability of Aborigines as stockmen (Western Australia, Queensland)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes index
Event [l966]
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Hawdon, Joseph, 1813-1871.
Sutherland, George.
Cattle drives -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
Cattle drives -- Australia -- Humor.
Cattle drives -- Australia.
Cattle drives -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Cattle drives.
Cattle droving -- Australia
Cattle trails -- Australia.
Cowboys.
Drovers -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
Droving -- Australia -- Anecdotes
Droving -- Australia -- Humor
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia.
Jackeroos -- Australia.
Pioneers -- Australia.
Sheep droving -- Australia
Sheep ranchers -- Australia.
Shepherds -- Australia.
Stockmen -- Australia
SUBJECT Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579
Australia -- History -- 1788-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
LC no. 67106397