Outback heroes / Patsy Adam-Smith
- Bib ID:
- 581346
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1926-2001
- Description:
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- Sydney : Mead & Beckett Publishing, 1982
- 255 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., 1 map, ports. ; 32 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0949698008
- Summary:
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Role of Tommy Windich, Jemmy Mungara and Tommy Pierre in Forrests 1869 and 1874 expeditions; scattered contact histories; life of stockmen in Kimberleys; 1946 Kimberley strike; role of Don McLeod and Dooley; formation of North-west Cooperative and Nomad P/L; photographs of camp residents and mining methods; tracking of lost children; account of cattle drive by Daisy Bates, 1902, before involvement with Aborigines; includes photo with decorated Ooldea men holding spears; Bishop Gsells purchase of young women to stop traditional marriages, Melville and Bathurst Islands; tracking of Japanese pilot by Matthias, Melville Island, W.W.II; Aboriginal attack, Lizard Island, 1881.
- Notes:
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- First published: Sydney : Lansdowne Press, 1981.
- Col. ill. on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- Australia. Rural regions. Social life. Essays
- Country life -- Australia
- Colonisation
- Law enforcement - Police trackers
- Weapons - Spears
- Employment - Conditions - Industrial relations
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Beef cattle
- Mining industry
- Settlement and contacts
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Defence - World War II
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking
- Race relations - Racial discrimination - Economic
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Ngalia / Ngalea people (C2) (SA SH52-07)
- Melville Island / Yermalner (NT SC52-16)
- South West Western Australia (SW WA SH50, SI50)
- Yermalner / Melville Island (NT SC52-16)
- West Kimberley area (WA SD51, SD52, SE51)
- Northern Territory - Central NT
- South East Western Australia (SE WA SH51, SH52, SI51, SI52)
- Windich Spring (Little Sandy Desert WA SG51-05)
- Lizard Island (Qld SE Cape York SD55-09)
- Bathurst Island (NT SC52-15)
- South Australia - West (SA SH53, SI53)
- Ooldea (Far West SA SH52-12)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2071 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2001
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1982
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