Norman Darcy interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 452567
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Darcy, Norman, 1936-, 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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- 2000
- 1 digital audio tape (25 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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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:
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- Recorded on July 8, 2000 at Cloncurry, Qld.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221240527
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 34 leaves) available.
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 2000
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