Michael Mick interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2638745
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Mick, Michael, 1920-2003, 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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- 2001 July 17
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 59 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Michael Mick, born at Normanton, Qld. speaks about his schooling; his brother running a camp; cattle stations, cattle breeds and spaying; routes; using mules, compared to horses; night watching; rushes/stampedes; places he worked at and people he worked with; rodeos; crocodile, trapping and hunting, selling the skins; buffalo shooting; characters he met; his marriage and family; looking after camp horses, mustering horses, shouldering, his best horse; places he lived in; Normanton rodeo, the new racecourse and club; the Burns Philp store; fishing in Karumba; how to catch and cook turtles; bush food; Jack Bell; a horse accident which ended his career as a ringer.
- Notes:
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221262207
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 62 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Drovers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Until 2071 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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