James Wentworth Keyes interviewed by Alex and Annette Hood in the Alex Hood folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2125606
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Keyes, Jim W. (James Wentworth), 1916-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Open access for research use and copying for personal use; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2002 Aug. 16
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 67 min.)
- Series:
- Alex Hood folklore collection.
- Summary:
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Jim Keyes, a boss drover from Aramac, Qld recalls his involvement on the cattle drive re-enactment bringing 700 head of cattle overland from Aramac arriving in Roma, Qld after 4 months in Aug. 2002 for the Harry Redford Festival in Roma. Keyes, born in 1916 recalls his family ancestry; his early brief education in Aramac; learning droving from his father at a very early age; his first droving trip to Birdsville, Qld(1925-1926); childhood games, marbles, jacks, knuckle flip; the history of the Keyes family and Wentworth family as far back as great grandfather, James Wentworth Keyes, who went north 9 years after Burke and Wills, selected a holding (Roseburr Station)17 miles north of the present site of Birdsville in 1870; Christianson family; Lammermor Station (rural property); Cameron Downs (rural property); during the Depression how he worked a big draught horse called Beater building bore drain with a delver for 15 shilling a week.
Keyes recalls his father lead a drive of 10,000 sheep with 4 men and 6 dogs from Portland Downs to Cameron Downs; as the country was too dry to do the return trip he and his father went onto Mt. Emu goldfields; droving trips, information about stations (rural properties); spending 3 years on the road for one droving trip; many people experienced hard times financially, many bagmen on the roads, his mother feeding the hungry; casket tickets; whalers fishing the rivers for tucker, crayfish; bush tucker; Rat Plague (1930); Aboriginal station workers; Jim's father droving experiences, working for Serverton Station owners for 12 months; Jim's father's story of opal mining in Whitecliffs and buying a cane farm; his father setting him up with the droving plant, very busy time during the war (W WII); he trained race horses and worked as overseer at Caldonia Station (owned by the Mitchells); the re-enactment trip; learning as a child.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Aug. 16, 2002 at Roma, Qld.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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