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Friends,

I ordered a book on Aussie cattlemen a while ago and found it to include quite a lot of interesting information on all sorts of topics discussed here in the past. It covers horsemanship, shoeing of horses and bullocks/oxen, time and distance travelled by Australian explorers, weight carried by them, experiences of Light Horse men with poor quality UP's, practical equipment and so on.

Here is my recomendation:

BIG MOBS
THE STORY OF ASUTRALIAN CATTLEMEN
BY GLEN MCLAREN
FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE PRESS

ISBN: 978 1 86368 247 3


Hope some of you will enjoy it.

Tom

G'day Tom,

It truly is a cracker of a book! Should be taught in our schools as part of the history syllabus. I know of a couple of the characters mentioned.
thanks
Richard

Hi Richard,

yeah I enjoyed it very much. It covers all the topics I'm interested in, even the ALH horses and tack. The author seems to know what he's writing about that's sure.

Cheers

Tom