Ann Brunner interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2134650
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Brunner, Ann (J. A.), 1925-, 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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- 2002
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 61 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Ann Brunner born 1925 in Ingham, Qld., talks about being educated by correspondence; her early working experience; droving from the age of fifteen; women working during the war; her father being a fencer and yard builder; how she worked in a mustering camp for nine years; her first camp at Lyndhurst being with her sister; the droving trips; an incident with soldiers on the Clarke River; watering six hundred bullocks by hand; a plane explosion seen from camp and coming across military police while droving; the night horses and mustering without yards; droving cattle through rivers; another incident with a war plane; when her sister married she stopped droving and took up riding in rodeos; women riding with their irons tied; giving away riding and working on trains in the dining cars; her father also being a buck jumper, axeman and horse team keeper.
Brunner speaks about learning to ride at an early age; her sister who was a good rider and buck jumper; cattle spaying practices; describes a good breeding heifer; methods used to shoe cattle; staying on timber camps during trips; describes timber camps; the diet during droving trips; meeting and marrying her husband and working together driving trucks; jumping horses in the late 1940s; how to set dog traps and gives an example of a recipe for a trap decoy; explains how to use a decoy; the difficulties of running sheep because of dogs and eagle hawks; began farming cattle after sheep; keeping 3,000 Droughtmaster cattle on four properties; mustering with a helicopter; disciplining horses by running them in wet river sand; working with cattle for forty to fifty years, retiring in 2002; her retirement; briefly describes working in a copper and gold mine with her sister; cutting two hundred gidgee posts in a day with an axe; her fear of lightning.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Oct. 7, 2002 at Charters Towers, Qld.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221272714
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (1 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 50 leaves)
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