Great Australian shearing stories /

Marsh, Bill, 1950-

Great Australian shearing stories / Shearing stories Bill 'Swampy' Marsh. - Reissue ed. - Sydney : ABC Books, 2001. - xi, 235 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Photographs: resides with individual photographers.

Machine derived contents note: "A Dog's Best Friend 1 -- "A Family Affair 4 -- "A Female on the Board 9 -- "A Shearer's Life 13 -- Back to Beckom 23 -- Big Ned from Big Burrawong 27 -- Blue Hills 31 -- Call the Doctor! 35 -- Cheek to Cheek 38 -- Classic Westerns 40 -- 'Click' Go the Shears 45 -- Deep into Footy 48 -- Don't Cross the Cook 51 -- From Black to White 55 -- God's Flock 59 -- Grand-dad and the Groper 62 -- Hard Times 65 -- Heave-ho 67 -- Herbie 70 -- Hot! 78 -- It's All to Do with Practice 82 -- It's Yours, Mate 87 -- Jackie Howe: Champion of Champions 91 -- Keep Your Hat On 98 -- Learners 101 -- Many Happy Returns 105 -- Memoirs of Marigold 107 -- New Chum, Old Chum 111 -- One Punch 117 -- Parrot 121 -- Peas, Anyone? 126 -- Pick It Up Next Year 129 -- Quick 132 -- Sammy and Chocko 135 -- Shagger's Ears 138 -- Shithouses and Coppers 143 -- Someone to Watch Over Me 147 -- Split 'Em! 164 -- Steak and Eggs, Guaranteed 167 -- Stuck in the Shower 172 -- Sunday Too Far 177 -- Tarboy 182 -- Thanks Mum 186 -- That's Mine! 189 -- The Birdman 192 -- The Cruellest Cut 198 -- The Demon Drink 201 -- The Docking of Springy Wilkenson 204 -- The Double-banger 210 -- The Expletive Dogs 214 -- The Galloping Ghan 219 -- The Ghost of Wilga Waterhole 225 -- The Honeymoon 231 -- The Last Waltz 237 -- The Pick-up 242 -- The Queen and I 248 -- The Shearer's Giblets 251 -- The Smithfield Lion 254 -- The World at His Feet 258 -- The Young Classer 263 -- Trials and Tribulations 265 -- Vincent Rainbird 270 -- Waiting 276.

In late 1999, Bill 'Swampy' Marsh began to collect shearing stories. This collection brings to life a world of outback stations, larrikins, roustabouts, sagacious dogs and babbling brooks whose blood is worth bottling. Part bush yarns, part social history, this book is a worthy successor to Marsh's 'Great Flying Doctor Stories'.


Text: Bill Marsh 2001.
Photographs: resides with individual photographers.

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