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- Aboriginal History, Australian History, Autobiography, Aviation, Cattle, Central Australia, History
At a Cost
- $45.00
- As a child, Roy McFadyen was placed in Melbourne oprhanages for his parents' convenience. At 15, and in the middle of the Great Depression, he was thrown out of home by his mother into a freezing winter's night and made an epic bicycle ride into the Mallee to become a wheat farmer's labourer. Seeking further consolation in hard work well…
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- Aboriginal History, Australian History, Cattle, Central Australia
The Versatile Man: The Life and Times of Don Ross Kaytetye Stockman
- $24.95
- 'They called me the versatile man,' Don Ross recalls. 'I put up windmilkls, fixed the trucks; I only had to see a thing done once and I could do it. That's how I was.' 'I've done some mongrel jobs,' he admits, and the worst? 'Shifting bloody c attle. Walking them when it's hot and there's a long way to go…
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- Australian History, Biography, Cattle, Horse Racing, Pastoralists
The High and the Mighty: The Noel Buntine Story
- $35.00
- Starting out with one truck, named ‘The High and the Mighty’, Noel Buntine pioneered a new era in cattle transport in the Top End. Within 20 years, his enterprise, Buntine Roadways, was operating the largest cattle-carrying buyisiness ibn northern Australia. Noel’s honesty and fairness in dealings earned ghuim the accolades synonymous with the name of his first Mack truck. He…
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- Aboriginal History, Australian History, Biography, Cattle, Central Australia, Horse Racing, Pastoralists, Tourist Attractions
Gidgee and Grit: a history of Loves Creek Station and Ross River Homestead, Central Australia
- $30.00
- Loves Creek Station is one of the earliest pastoral leases in Central Australia, and once covered near 4000 sq km. Gidgee and Grit traces the history of the region from geological beginnings and Aboriginal culture to the early explorers like John McDouall Stuart, and construction of the Overland Telegraph line. Also included is the story of the early pioneers like the…
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- Australian History, Cattle, Central Australia, Horse Racing, Pastoralists
Bulldust and Bough Shades (1st Ed)
- $10.00
- by Lorraine Day (formerly Lorraine Dale) 52 pages Paperback
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