Hell west and crooked / Tom Cole.

By: Cole, Tom, 1906-1995Material type: TextTextSeries: Imprint livesPublisher: Pymble, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1995Copyright date: ©1998Edition: A&R classic editionDescription: 356 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, ports ; 20 cmContent type: still image | cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0207189846Subject(s): Cole, Tom, 1906-1995 | Stockmen -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography | Hunters -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Biography | Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Northern Territory | Frontier and pioneer life | Hunters | Stockmen -- Northern Territory -- Biography | Hunters -- Northern Territory -- Biography | Frontier and pioneer life -- Northern Territory | Northern TerritoryGenre/Form: Biography. DDC classification: 994.290099 LOC classification: SK17.C54 | A3 1994
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. From suitcase to swag -- 2. Lake Nash, Northern Territory -- 3. Life on a cattle station -- 4. The laws of droving -- 5. Droving from Strathfield to Glenormiston -- 6. Mustering on a Kidman station -- 7. Stock camp cook at Brunette Downs -- 8. Banka Banka and Barrow Creek Races -- 9. Head stockman at Wave Hill for Vesteys -- 10. Telegraph lines and camels -- 11. Tragedies in the outback -- 12. Outstations of Victoria River Downs -- 13. Dangers of the bronco yard -- 14. Managing Bullita Station -- 15. Brumby running at Hooker's Creek -- 16. The breaker from the Territory -- 17. Brock's Creek races -- 18. The pack-horse mail to Limbunya -- 19. Buffalo shooting on the coastal plains -- 20. Kapalga and the Caledon Bay massacre -- 21. Another spearing, and more misadventures -- 22. Prospecting in Arnhem Land -- 23. Crocodile hunting with harpoon and gun -- 24. Time belong ... -- Maps of the northern region.
Summary: The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in the toughest country in Australia and later on as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern territory before the war.
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First published: Sydney : Collins, 1988.

Introduction -- 1. From suitcase to swag -- 2. Lake Nash, Northern Territory -- 3. Life on a cattle station -- 4. The laws of droving -- 5. Droving from Strathfield to Glenormiston -- 6. Mustering on a Kidman station -- 7. Stock camp cook at Brunette Downs -- 8. Banka Banka and Barrow Creek Races -- 9. Head stockman at Wave Hill for Vesteys -- 10. Telegraph lines and camels -- 11. Tragedies in the outback -- 12. Outstations of Victoria River Downs -- 13. Dangers of the bronco yard -- 14. Managing Bullita Station -- 15. Brumby running at Hooker's Creek -- 16. The breaker from the Territory -- 17. Brock's Creek races -- 18. The pack-horse mail to Limbunya -- 19. Buffalo shooting on the coastal plains -- 20. Kapalga and the Caledon Bay massacre -- 21. Another spearing, and more misadventures -- 22. Prospecting in Arnhem Land -- 23. Crocodile hunting with harpoon and gun -- 24. Time belong ... -- Maps of the northern region.

The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in the toughest country in Australia and later on as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern territory before the war.

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