George Booth interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 611812
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Booth, George, 1925?-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2002
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 60 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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George Booth, retired drover, (b.1925?) talks about his family history and their movement through Northern Australia using horse teams; the wagons and horse teams used at the time; tells a story of his father running away from a school teacher at Inca Creek; death in the bush; a horse team being left to his grandmother which was run by his father at the age fifteen; mother's family being drovers, brumby runners and horse breakers; father buying another team and marrying; the two teams, description of leaders and how they were driven; the teams being quarantined for eighteen months and sold; his father learning to drive; his uncles droving, delivering mail and driving trucks; his education; his first job ringing for Paddy Fogherty, a drover, then working with bullocks; going from station to station.
Booth speaks about being hospitalised for six months after being injured by a horse; moving cattle south during the World War II; working as a saddler and studying for two years at an agricultural college; how he began working as a drover at age seventeen, and bought horses on return to Queensland; counting cattle and sheep; delivering thoroughbred horses; leather work and plaiting; using good hides and explains plaiting methods; the modern use of American terminology in relation to droving; retiring in 1964; he describes the accident with a horse; talks about the role of workers in a droving camp; the most important being the horse tailer; horses being trained to work at night; droving and holding methods; the responsibilities of the head drover catering for workers; how to pick a good skin for leatherwork; the tanning process; being 'black-balled' and having to pay for a licence to employ Aboriginal people.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Oct. 4, 2002 at Charters Towers, Qld.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and corrected transcript (typescript, 32 leaves) available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Drovers
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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