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The Early Days
As the pastoralists moved their stock overland from the Avon valley region to Champion Bay, further exploration started in the Murchison / Gascoyne region. The surveyor Robert Austin who first traveled throughout the Mt Magnet and Murchison region 1854. In 1858 F.T. Gregory set off to explore the Murchison, Lyons and Gascoyne River.
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Leon Krasker
THE DEATH OF MR. LEON KRASKER 1916, October 21 Northern Times
The tragic death of Leon Krasker
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A Tragic Droving Job (By S.G.R.)
1933 'HOODOO' The West Australian, 23 September
This is an authentic record of an extra ordinary series of tragic happenings, that dogged a droving job in this State. Of those men interested in the transaction six died, one was very badly burned, and one injured
The happenings were all at separate intervals, and each victim was well known to the majority of our pastoralists in the middle north and north west. A lease of their lives could have been taken and they were typical of the virile, men who handle our stock across the lonely tracks in the back country None of them were old men. the eldest being in their middle forties.
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Great Drovers.
Western Mail Thursday 15 October 1936
Dear "Non-Com.""Just-a-Mug's" recent reply to an item of Joe Waldeck's interested me greatly. Perhaps it was just coincidence that he referred to Joe's trip of the summer of '24, when he pointed out that droving even these days is no bed of roses. Strange to say, I was one that made that trip with Joe, and although his distance between waters, and the numbers lost do not coincide with what I remember of the trip, he could not have picked a better example to point his meaning. Perhaps some of your readers may be interested in the details, such as I remember them.
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The drover's life and his dog
THE DROVER'S LIFE 1936, April 28 Western Argus p. 35.
Sheep droving is one of the most ancient callings, for it originated in the prehistoric days when men first domesticated the goat like progenitor of our modern sheep.
The good drover is born, not made he must he a man of initiative and of the type which never admits defeat. The modern drover faces almost the same problems as did the nomad flock master at the dawn of civilisation.
Scientific breeding has changed sheep in many ways, their requirements in the way of feed and water have remained unaltered. When feed and water are obtainable along the roads, the cheapest way of moving sheep is on the hoof and this fact enables the drover to compete with modern rail and road transport.
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