Roping in the History of Broncoing

Roping in the History of Broncoing
Author: Darrell Lewis
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 1921920246

This book sets out the evidence to answer to this question and outlines its development and spread from one side of the continent to the other. It’s an amazing and quintessentially Australian story, one of the many stories from Australia’s ‘hidden history’. It will be of great interest to all the men and women who have used the technique, to those who are now attending bronco branding competitions, to any who have wondered at an old bronco panel or a faded photograph of broncoing in action, and to all who are fascinated by Australian history.

A Wild History

A Wild History
Author: Darrell Lewis
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1921867264

The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia’s Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others, from the explorers of the 1830s and 1850s to the founders of the big stations in the 1880s and 1890s, and the cattle duffers in the early 1900s. This book looks at them all. Drawing on painstaking research into obscure and rich documentary sources, Aboriginal oral traditions, and first-hand investigations conducted in the region over thirty-five years, Darrell Lewis pieces together the complex interactions between the environment, the powerful and warlike Aboriginal tribes and the settlers and their cattle, which produced what truly became A Wild History.

Beyond the Black Stump

Beyond the Black Stump
Author: Alan Mayne
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781862548008

Historians have had little to say about the lands that stretch 'beyond the black stump'. These essays from around the country build inland Australia into our national history, crisscrossing both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors are Lorina Barker, Amanda Barry, Badger Bates, Peter Bishop, Nici Cumpston, Jean Duruz, Charles Fahey, Lionel Frost, Heather Goodall, Jenny Gregory, Patricia Grimshaw, Rodney Harrison, Rick Hosking, Darrell Lewis, Alan Mayne, Chrissiejoy Marshall, Margaret Somerville and Richard Waterhouse.

Horsemen of the Outback

Horsemen of the Outback
Author: Don Corcoran
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2012-11-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 192192053X

This is an extremely well researched work which will be treasured by all horse riders. It is a very thorough account of Australian spurs and the bush blacksmiths like Fred Gutte who designed his on Wave Hill Station, but is much more that. If offers a romantic folklore of the horsemen who used the spurs in their sometimes dangerous and often lonely rides on the cattle stations between outback Queensland and the Kimberley.

Macquarie Dictionary Eighth Edition

Macquarie Dictionary Eighth Edition
Author: Macquarie Dictionary
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1760556599

The Macquarie Dictionary Eighth Edition is nationally and internationally regarded as the standard reference on Australian English. An up-to-date account of our variety of English, it not only includes words and senses peculiar to Australian English, but also those common to the whole English-speaking world. The Eighth Edition features: - a comprehensive record of English as it is used in Australia today - more than 3500 new entries such as algorithmic bias, cancel culture, deepfake, eco-anxiety, hygge, influencer, Me Too, ngangkari, single-use, social distancing - thousands of updated entries to reflect changing perspectives relating to the environment, politics, technology and the internet - illustrative phrases showing how a word is used in context - words and phrases from regional Australia - etymologies of words and phrases - extensive usage notes - foreword by Kim Scott, multi-award-winning novelist.

Bronco Harry’s Last Ride

Bronco Harry’s Last Ride
Author: Jack Drake
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2019
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1925877299

Now a second volume of Bush Ballads and Yarns in the same style, has been compiled by Jack – Bronco Harry’s Last Ride. Bush Poetry Awards Won by Jack Drake • Bush Poet of the Year, 2001. The Asthma Foundation of NSW • Winner, Original Performance, National Bush Poetry Championship. Brisbane EKKA 2001 • The Tenterfield Oracles of the Bush, Written 1999, Performance 2000 & 2001 • Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth, Finalist with The Cattle Dog’s Revenge CD, 2002 • Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth, Finalist with Dinkum Poetry CD, 2003 • Golden Gumleaf Trophy at the Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth,2004 for • best, Original Verse Book of the Year with The Cattle Dog’s Revenge Bush Ballads and • Yarns published by CQUPress. Second publication by Boolarong Press. • Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth. Finalist with Bronco Harry’s Last Ride CD, 2006 • Golden Gumleaf Trophy at the Australian Bush Laureate Award at Tamworth for Best • Album of the year 2011 with his CD Australian Bush Poetry Classics The Australian bushman’s sense of humour is legendary: dry, laconic and with a good bite. Jack Drake is one of Australia’s best writers and reciters of this comic bush verse. But he also has a great sense of the farcical and the crazy tall story. These are more ballads and yarns you’ll be wanting to recite in the evenings on the verandah. Again, we guarantee a belly-full of laughs or your money back.

Maybe It'll Rain Tomorrow

Maybe It'll Rain Tomorrow
Author: Marion Houldsworth
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1921274042

Biographies of people living and working in the Australian outback.

Decky Does A Bronco

Decky Does A Bronco
Author: Douglas Maxwell
Publisher: Oberon Books
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

The tragi-comic story of a gang of nine-year-old boys who spend the summer of 1983 "broncoing swings" (kicking the swing over the bar). David looks back on his friend Decky, the only one who couldn't bronco, and the unthinkable tragedy that threw the boys into adulthood.