Since there was often very little timber suitable for yard building, cattle needed to be branded without yards, leading to the evolution of the broncoing method. [click to continue…]
Barry Nielsen
The Australian Outback and the American Wild West were two of the last frontiers in the territorial conquest and expansions of the 19th century. [click to continue…]
The Australian Outback and the American Wild West were two of the last frontiers in the territorial conquest and expansions of the 19th century. [click to continue…]
*Australian History
For many Aboriginal people, white colonisation arrived with the armed men of the Native Police: a brutal force that operated on the 19th-century frontier, killing large numbers of Indigenous people. [click to continue…]
Revealed here for the first time is the inside story of life as a ‘Leyland Brother’, from modest beginnings as the children of British migrants, [click to continue…]
Melbourne, 1871: John King is dying far from the deserts he traversed with the legendary burke and Wills. Ten years on from that fateful expedition – the first to cross the Australian continent from south to north – King is finally ready to tell his story. [click to continue…]
All Dakota heard the song of the gun when two range giants declared war on each other. [click to continue…]
Australia lost its innocence in 1942. Japan had conquered Asia and the Pacific, and was at our doorstep. Our finest troops were fighting in the Middle East. [click to continue…]
From Gympie in the south, through Mount Morgan and Canoona on the central coast, to Palmer river and Hodgkinson in the tropical north, the 19th century Queensland goldfields were a magnet for tumultuous swarms of nomadic fossickers. [click to continue…]
We share the sadness of Kate Darcy Teece as she tells of the tragic disappearance of her mother and ‘one of the little ones’ in 1944; the joy and relief of Elaine Cluff when three-year-old Tom is found after spending two nights lost in the bush; the humour as ‘Wagga’ Darcy is treed by a buffalo and Wayne McCulloch has a stand-off with a bull. [click to continue…]