Smith, Eleanor Page. <br/><br/>
The beckoning west :  the story of H.S. Trotman and the Canning Stock Route / 
Eleanor Smith. 
 - Sydney :  Angus and Robertson,  1966. 
 - vii, 220 p. :  map ;  23cm. 
<br/><br/> The 5 expeditions of H.S. Trotman as told to E. Smith. 
<br/><br/>Green fields of home -- The beckoning West -- First Expedition -- Goolgardie bound -- Gold fever -- Water on the brain -- Mundaring Weir -- Of camels and disputed claims -- Bush Baptism -- Looking for the lost --  Lonely station outposts -- Heartcrying to return -- Red water fever -- Land of mirages -- New names on the map -- Faint the track -- Along the sturt -- Christmas at the creeek -- Well in the sand -- No alternative -- Job completed -- Appendixes: -- Coolgardie water scheme -- Trotman's journal -- Rabbit menace -- Canning stock rout Waters -- Still room on the earth. 
<br/><br/> Appendix 4 gives list of native waters and bores and wells sunk by members of Canning Stock Route party in 1908-10; p.58; Art of tracking described; p.75; Sandals made by natives found at Roy Hill; description of corroboree - songmen, dancers bodies decorated with paint and glued on down; p.87; Cooking of kangaroo described; p.88; Treatment of injuries; p.90; Brief description of circumcision method at initiation ceremony; p.127; Painted caves at Killagurra noted; method of catching spinifex rats described. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>xcc00022411  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB6624118  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Trotman, Hubert Stanslake, 1874-1965. <br/>Canning, Alfred Wernam 1860-1936. <br/>Trotman, Hubert S., 1874- <br/>Trotman, H. S. 1874-1965. <br/>Canning, Alfred Wernam, 1861-1936. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Explorers--Western Australia--Biography.<br/>Settlement and contacts - Explorers.<br/>Art - Body art.<br/>Art - Rock art - Painting.<br/>Initiation - Circumcision.<br/>Ceremonies - Initiation.<br/>Food - Preparation - Cooking.<br/>Hunting.<br/>Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine.<br/>Food - Meat - Kangaroo / Wallaby.<br/>Music - Musicians - Composers and songwriters.<br/>Plants - Spinifex.<br/>Transport - Road - Roads and tracks.<br/>Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking.<br/>Mining industry - Gold.<br/>Surveyors--Western Australia.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Western Australia--Discovery and exploration.<br/>Roy Hill (WA East Pilbara SF50-12)<br/>Canning Stock Route (WA SF51, SG51)<br/>Western Australia--Canning Stock Route.<br/>Canning Stock Route (W.A.)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DU360.T75 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.176213/09941