Red dust rising : the story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga / by Marion Houldsworth
- Bib ID:
- 3208182
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Houldsworth, Marion
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Rockhampton, Qld. : Central Queensland University Press, 2004
- xv, 216 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781876780524
- 1876780525
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: PROLOGUE
- Resumed For Army Exercises...
- 1. A BIT OF A CHALLENGE 6
- Tabletop Station in the Early Days
- 2. A GOOD PADDOCK 25
- All Souls School
- 3. GETTING A BIT OF EXPERIENCE 32
- The Basalt Country; the Gulf; New Guinea; India
- 4. REACHING UP TO TOUCH BOTTOM 44
- Starting Out at Urapunga
- 5. KANGAROO DREAMING 61
- The Rittarangu and Njandi People
- 6. GETTING MY HEAD ABOVE WATER 74
- Bull Catching, Broncoing and Buffaloes
- 7. SUGAR-BAG COUNTRY 90
- In the Stock Camp; A Long Walk
- 8. ROPER BAR 100
- The 'O.T.'; The Duracks' Camp; The Police Station
- 9. GETTING ON MY FEET 114
- The New Homestead; The Airstrip
- 10. A RIVER FULL OF CROCODILES 129
- Harry Messel and Crocodile Research
- 11. MUSTERED, BRANDED AND TESTED 144
- The B.T.E.C. Scheme; The Cattle Crash; The Abattoir; Pleuro
- 12. STAN NORGREN'S STORY 155
- The Saddler of Urapunga
- 13. THE WILTON HILTON 162
- Anyone Who Turned Up Got a Feed
- 14. THE BEGINNINGS OF TROUBLE 172
- Alcohol problems; Accidents; Urapunga Declared Dry
- 15. THE WRITING ON THE WALL 184
- Land Claims and Stirrers
- 16. AN EYE TO THE FUTURE 192
- Return to Tabletop; Cattle-Raising Around the World
- AFTERWORD 198
- -Return To Urapunga October 2003
- APPENDICES
- A 206
- Report by Charles Todd on the Construction of the Overland
- Telegraph Line
- "B 207
- The Loss of The Young Australia
- C 208
- Original Crocodile Dundee Killed in Shoot Out
- D 2 0 9
- The Handing Over of Urapunga to the Ngalakgan people.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 211-212.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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