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Norman Darcy interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 452567
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline [sound recording]
Author
Darcy, Norman, 1936-, Interviewee
 
Online Versions
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 2000 
1 digital audio tape (25 min.) 
Series

Drovers oral history project.

Summary

Norman Darcy discusses his family; the beginnings of Malapunya Springs cattle station as a market garden; the large Darcy/Hopkins family; cattle droving; watering cattle; artificial flowers; Malapunya Station and homestead; stock breeds and characteristics; modern methods of stock handling; Northern Territory pioneers; stock work dangers and difficulties; throwing bulls; cattle marketing; overseas live-cattle trade; young beef; horse breeding; stock horses; cattle herding techniques; carrying capacities; retirement to Cloncurry; horse races at Brunette, Rankin and Borroloola; cattle droving; "night horses"; rushes and stampedes; shoeing horses; packhorses; mules and donkeys; breadmaking; Aboriginal and white stockmen; great stockmen of the past; conclusion.

Notes

Recorded on July 8, 2000 at Cloncurry, Qld.

Also available online at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.oh-vn452567

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary (2 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 34 leaves) 
Subjects Darcy, Norman, - 1936- - Interviews.  |  Droving - Australia - Anecdotes.  |  Drovers - Australia - Interviews.  |  Droving - Australia - Biography.
Other authors/contributors Simpson, Bruce (Bruce Forbes), 1923-, Interviewer  |  Gammage, Bill, 1942-, Interviewer

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ORAL TRC 4599/2 (transcript)
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ORAL TRC 4599/2 (summary)
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Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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