Larry Dulhunty interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage for the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2134464
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Dulhunty, Larry, 1922-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2002
- 1 digital audio tape (54 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Larry Dulhunty born 1942, in Charters Towers .talks about his father being a drover; being educated mainly by correspondence, but attending some schools; the property where he grew up in Chippendale Valley; cattle being kept on the property; his father droving and working as a horse breaker; going on short trips with his father after leaving school; starting to work on Burdekin Downs Station, remaining there for a couple of years, earning 'ten bob' a week; working on Dotswood Station, at The Bluff and St. Paul's, Yakamunda; buck jumping and the saddles used; how he became involved in show business; boxing in hotels in Charters Towers; going to war at age nineteen with the AIF, and contracting Malaria during that time; starting to box after returning from the war; the people he began working with and places visited; starting a buck jump show in addition to boxing; his horse, 'Black Angel'; seeing himself as one of the last bush showman; cracking whips and sharpshooting in the show; an incident where he accidentally shot someone through the hand.
Dulhunty describes shooting a rifle over the shoulder using a mirror; he then tells a story about fellow showman, Ernie Wilson, who was shot; boxing in shows and names star boxers; explains the phrase 'take a flop' or 'take a dive'; running a boxing tent in 1948; the illegal entertainments in the mines and drovers camps and describes 'scratch pulling'; the Winton to Boulia safari; whips used for whip cracking; his research and writing, and a book he'd written about 'Galloping Jones'; the term 'poddy dodger'; cattle theft; the lead mining in the area; his experiences fighting on the Kokoda Trail during the war; the processes involved in setting up a show including permits and physical set-up of arena and tents etc.; how fights were run; travelling through the Kimberley throughout the 1960s and early 1970s; his experiences train-jumping and talks about how and why it was a common occurrence.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Oct. 7, 2002 at Charters Towers, Qld.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221270752
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 30 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Entertainers
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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