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Author Simmons, Lexie.

Title Kajirri, the bush missus / Darrell Lewis & Lexie Simmons
Published Rockhampton, Qld. : Central Queensland University Press, 2005

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Description viii, 156 pages 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents Foreword -- Into the outback -- First days at VRD -- Settling in -- Other jobs -- The end of the stock season -- Christmas and new year, 1948-49 -- Cold weather time, 1949 -- Trips around the station -- Marriage - September 1949 -- Into isolation -- Women's business -- Homestead jobs -- Improvements and routines -- Mustering & horses -- Living with the Aborigines -- Illness, injury and death among the Aborigines -- Getting meat -- Second pregnancy -- To Mistake Creek -- Back to VRD -- Things had changed -- "Bullocky Bill" and other characters -- Health scares -- The beginning of the galah sessions -- Learning from the Aborigines -- Stock camp cooking and the end of my truck -- Our last year at Sanford -- Leaving VRD -- Recipes of a bush cook
Summary A woman's life on Victoria River Downs 1949-1958
Notes Includes index
Subject Simmons, Lexie.
Station life -- Northern Territory -- Victoria River Region
Women -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Women -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
Ranch life -- Victoria River Region (N.T.)
Country life -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Victoria River Region
Women -- Norther Territory -- Social conditions
Victoria River Region (N.T.) -- History
Ranch life -- Australia -- Victoria River Region (N.T.)
Women -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social conditions.
Women -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography.
Ranch life -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Victoria River Region
SUBJECT Victoria River Region (N.T.) -- History
Victoria River Downs (N.T.) -- History
Victoria River Downs Station (N.T.) -- History
Genre/Form Biography.
History.
Autobiographies.
Author Lewis, Darrell (Darrell J.)
LC no. 2006404252
ISBN 1876780754 paperback
9781876780753