Bill and Mary Mac : from the Kimberleys to Cocklebiddy and places in between / by Jill Campbell
- Bib ID:
- 6422259
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Campbell, Jill, author
- Description:
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- Victoria Park, Wester Australia : Hesperian Press, 2014
- ©2014
- iii, 116 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780859055352 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Bill McDonald droved from Queensland through the Territory and settled in the Kimberley. Mary Darcy moved from Darwin to the Kimberley and grew up around Wyndham. They married in 1923. Later they shifted to the Nullarbor, starting the Cocklebiddy roadhouse in 1957. Bill writes of the characters of early Kimberley and incidents of life and death. Mary, of the people and their lives, in an endearing personal way. Covered are the deaths of Condren & Sullivan, life on Ruby Plains Station with the Darcy family, the Hyland girls, and many other items of interest of the near forgotten years between the wars.
- Notes:
- Includes index of people and index of place names.
- Subject:
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- McDonald, Bill, 1902-1979
- McDonald, Mary
- Roadhouses -- Western Australia -- Cocklebiddy -- History
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers - Drovers / Stockmen
- Occupations - Pastoral industry workers
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Beef cattle
- Animals - Livestock - Stealing and killing
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - 1901-
- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Biography
- Kimberley (W.A.) -- History
- Kimberley (W.A.) -- Social conditions
- Catfish Waterhole (Central NT SE52-08)
- Ruby Plains (WA East Kimberley SE52-10)
- Wyndham (WA East Kimberley SD52-14)
- Waterloo (Central NT SE52-03)
- Billiluna / Kururrungku (Central WA Tanami Desert SE52-14)
- Daguragu / Kalkaringi / Wave Hill (Central NT SE52-08)
- Australian
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- Publication date:
- 2014
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