Arthur Chalkley interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2638367
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Chalkley, Arthur, 1929-, 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 13
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 65 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Arthur Chalkley talks about his background; starting work at 15; working on stations in the Gulf Country from 1946; the Campbell family of Iffley Station; breaking horses; Normanton Races (1949); his bullock riding wins and tips; leaving Iffley (1948) to care for mother in Sydney; stock management, mustering practices; Wild Jimmy Edwards, his management style in camp, a character in 'A Town Like Alice' apparently based on him; racism; Gilbert MacIntosh; work opportunities; droving; breaking horses on Helen Springs and Sinclair Hill; his trip as boss drover (1957); the horses for Sinclair Hill; a successful system of working young horses; modern "horse whispering" techniques; rates of pay; ringers; horse breaking expectations/standards; Robin Priest; shoeing; horse breaking on his property near Bogabilla, upgrading facilities; bores and their maintenance; bore workers; the impact of an isolated existence; alcoholism; brother's drinking problems, the impact on his droving business, loss of horses, his death (1972); burials; Snowy Burman's grave; his attitude towards relationships with women; Bonnie and Cliff McIntyre, their children and achievements; Indigenous stockmen; broncos.
- Partial contents:
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- Story of "Cyclops", a bucking horse from Longreach
- Story of Jimmy Edwards' horses swimming across Norman River
- Story of difficult horse
- Story of Snowy Burman's suicide over a failed romance
- Story of Rainbow retrieving rope from escaped horse.
- Notes:
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221252408
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 39 leaves)
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 2001
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