Cover; Title page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Map showing main cattle stations and Aboriginal Reserves, 1922; 1. The Battle for the Waterholes; 2. Men, Horses and True Grit; 3. Stockcamp and House; Picture section; 4. 'Black Velvet'; Picture section; 5. 'Tame Blacks'? Paternalism and Control; Picture section; 6. Workin' Longa Tucker; 7. No Shame Job; Appendix: Oral History and Writing about Aborigines; Endnotes; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
Born in the Cattle is a major work of social history, describing the extensive involvement of Aboriginal people in the northern cattle industry and the texture of everyday life and work in the outback north before World War II
