Jim Maizey Jim Maizey i(A137949 works by)
Born: Established: 1914 Blair Athol, Clermont - Dysart - Moranbah - Glenden area, Central West Queensland, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon The Orphan Swaggy 'Keep Up Front Kid, There's Nothing at the Tail' Jim Maizey , Claire Williams , Rockhampton : Central Queensland University Press , 1996 Z1751447 1996 single work autobiography The Orphan Swaggy is a true life story about Outback Queensland in the 1930s. It will hold its own in the company of A.B. Facey's A Fortunate Life. Jim was nine years old when his father died in a coal mining accident, leaving Jim's mother with three young children. To help make ends meet, Jim caught and tied pigs for slaughter, looked after the family's goat herd, worked in the school holidays as a cowboy and was given a job with the drovers on the black soil plain. He also worked underground with the horses at Blair Athol Coal Mine. Jim's mother passed away when he was fourteen and the house was sold to pay for her funeral. Jim rolled his swag and left Blair Athol in search of work in the Outback. (Publisher's blurb)
1 'Keep up Front Kid' Claire Williams , Jim Maizey , 1993 extract autobiography (The Orphan Swaggy)
— Appears in: The Suncorp Literary Awards 1993 1993; (p. 45-61)
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