In the period 1900-1919 the horse-duffers of the Northern Kimberley used the cover of the monsoonal Wet to steal mobs of horses from the vast stations in the Northern Territory and force-drive them over the border into Western Australia. King Smokey was a master-thief and one of the great bushmen of the Australian outback
Analysis
Biography & autobiography (Australia)
Modern history (c 1788-1914)
Notes
"These stories were related to me by two north Kimberley old-timers during the several years I spent in the Kimberley underworld shortly after World War II" -- Author's note
