Title Man from Arltunga : Walter Smith, Australian bushman / R.G. Kimber

Published Victoria Park, W.A. : Hesperian Press, [1986] ©1986

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	994.2040924 Smith Kim/Mfa		AVAILABLE

Description vi, 176 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (some color) ; 23 cm Summary Life story of a horseman, drover, camel man, dogger, prospector, miner and east Aranda law man, based on interviews and other oral accounts; includes observations of Aborigines, Chinese, Afghans and Europeans throughout central Australia; recounts visits to numerous stations, wells, soakages and ceremonial sites; participation in, and observation of, ceremonies; Aboriginal memories of Lasseter; Arltunga, Pine Creek, Tennant Creek and Granites gold fields Notes Includes indexes Bibliography Bibliography: pages 152-154 Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection Subject Smith, Walter, 1893- Aboriginal Australians -- Biography. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Biography. Camels -- Australia -- Central Australia. Camels -- Australia. Country life -- Australia -- Central Australia. Country life -- Australia. SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237 Australia -- Biography http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114302 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 Australia -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114302 Australia -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009594 Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 Central Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81035352 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237 Genre/Form Biographies. ISBN 085905084X

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