- Bib ID:
- 4218087
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Read, Ken, 1935-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2007
- 1 sound file (ca. 79 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Ken Read, discusses his family life and background; attending small bush school; living with grandmother at Glebe Point; working milk run, selling newspapers; leaving home and working on farm at Forbes ploughing with draft horses aged 16; hunting and fishing when funds ran out; Cunnamulla; droving; partner and eight children; stock work; sheep and cattle counting methods; his properties in Charleville area; history with police; cooking abilities; time at Prison Farm; current situation; humorous yarns; recites poetry; his empathy with older people.
- Notes:
- Recorded on August 25, 2007 at Camooweal, Qld.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Corrected transcript (typescript, 46 leaves)
- Timed summary (3 p.)
- Subject:
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