The beckoning west : the story of H.S. Trotman and the Canning Stock Route / Eleanor Smith.

By: Smith, Eleanor PageContributor(s): Trotman, Hubert S, 1874-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Angus & Robertson, 1966Description: vii, 220 p. : map ; 23cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Trotman, Hubert Stanslake, 1874-1965 | Canning, Alfred Wernam (Wornam), 1860-1936 | Trotman, Hubert S., 1874- | Trotman, H. S. (Hubert Stanslake), 1874-1965 | Canning, Alfred Wernam, 1861-1936 | Explorers -- Western Australia -- Biography | Settlement and contacts - Explorers | Art - Body art | Art - Rock art - Painting | Initiation - Circumcision | Ceremonies - Initiation | Food - Preparation - Cooking | Hunting | Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine | Food - Meat - Kangaroo / Wallaby | Music - Musicians - Composers and songwriters | Plants - Spinifex | Transport - Road - Roads and tracks | Hunting, gathering and fishing - Tracking | Mining industry - Gold | Surveyors -- Western Australia | Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration | Roy Hill (WA East Pilbara SF50-12) | Canning Stock Route (WA SF51, SG51) | Western Australia -- Canning Stock Route | Canning Stock Route (W.A.)DDC classification: 338.176213/09941 LOC classification: DU360.T75
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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The 5 expeditions of H.S. Trotman as told to E. Smith.

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.

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.

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