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Author: Joyce West
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGay Allan tells the story of her life on an outback sheep station beyond Gisborne, where she lives with her unmarried Uncle Dunsany, her Aunt Belle and her three orphaned cousins.
Author: Fay Godwin
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780905483535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Darrell Lewis
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1921920238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost a century, drovers moved cattle along the Murranji Track, despite scarce water, jungle-like scrub and its reputation as the Death Track. In this well-researched, detailed book Lewis provides the definitive account of the track, from the time of the Aborigines and early explorers, to its opening by the legendary Bluey Buchanan.
Author: A. R. B. Haldane
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Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781912476534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinating account of Scotland's droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from every corner of the land to markets in central Scotland. In pastoral Scotland, the breeding and movement of livestock were fundamental to the lives of the people. The story of the drove roads takesthe reader on an engrossing tour of Scottish history, from the lawless cattle driving by reivers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the legitimate movement of stock which developed after the Union of the Crowns, by which time the large-scale movement of stock to established markets had become an important part of Scotland's economy, and a vital aspect of commercial life in the Empire.
Author: Joyce West
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Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781932350791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ruth Entwistle Low
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Published: 2014-07-23
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1743486812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the European settlement of New Zealand, drovers have moved stock 'on the hoof' from ships and stations to new homes scattered throughout the country. In this book – the first of its kind – Ruth Entwistle Low interviews almost 60 old-time drovers, revealing and reliving the practice of droving and the people who have underpinned it. Through original research, colourful storytelling and the voices of the drovers themselves, Ruth describes what the job entailed – where and how they travelled, the problems they faced, the ups and downs of the lifestyle. Ranging all over rural New Zealand, from our colonial past to the droving industry's 'twilight' years, Ruth documents both the day-to-day and the dramatic in a gripping narrative that will appeal to a wide body of readers. On the Hoof is a truly special book – a heartland history of New Zealand that seeks not simply to explain the drover and the droving way of life, but to honour them also.
Author: Terry Ruscin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2016-10-31
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1439658242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraveling across the treacherous and diverse landscape of western North Carolina is a challenge historically met with human ingenuity. Mountain traces of Native Americans, dusty stagecoach routes and vital railroads lined the region. Asheville installed the state's first electric streetcars. Intrepid young men and women continued North Carolina's aviation legacy. The Buncombe Turnpike helped tame the Blue Ridge Mountains, allowing livestock drives to reach markets in South Carolina. Author Terry Ruscin reveals the visionaries and risk-takers who paved the way to the "Land of the Sky" in a wondrous examination of western North Carolina transportation history.
Author: Anne Peden and Jim Scott
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1467148091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraveling US 25 through the Carolinas today is a much more pleasant experience than it was in the 1700s. Then, the road from the Tennessee Cherokee Towns to Augusta, Georgia, was a Cherokee trading path that followed a bison trace to the navigable port on the Savannah River. Drovers came from as far as Kentucky herding hogs, turkeys and mules. Lowcountry South Carolinians traveled by stagecoach and wagon to the foothills and mountains, staying for months. The Augusta Road, Saluda Gap and Buncombe Turnpike became the Dixie Highway Carolina Division and then US Route 25 by 1931. Authors Anne Peden and Jim Scott travel the trading path and concrete highway to explore this fascinating history.
Author: Susan Price
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Published: 2023-06-03
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTen-year-old Sandy's childhood ends when his mother sells him to a farmer who half-starves and beats him. So he runs away for good, away from the farm and from home. Alone on the road, penniless, Sandy is lucky to find friends: Spot and Patch, two drover's dogs, who are making their way home all by themselves. With no idea where they are going, Sandy joins them, following them across Scotland, through a wild landscape of loch and mountain, to the Hebridean island of Mull in the West. When the dogs lead him to their croft, Sandy's deepest wish seems to have come true. He, too, has found a loving home. He is happier at Lachlan's croft than he thought he could be, until he discovers that he is not really wanted there at all. Unwelcome, he takes to the road again. But without his four-legged friends. Will he go through his whole life friendless and lonely? Susan Price is an acclaimed writer of books for the young. She has won the Carnegie medal and the Guardian Fiction prize and her books have been translated into many languages.
