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Note: Alexander Donald Pwerle Ross as told to Terry Whitebeach.
Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 The Versatile Man : The Life and Times of Don Ross, Kaytetye Stockman
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'Born in Barrow Creek, north of Alice Springs, to an Aboriginal mother and a white father, Don grew up on Neutral Junction station, between two worlds: the white settler world of his grandfather and other station owners, and the Kaytetye world of his mother’s family. He knew both cultures and spoke both languages, and experienced the uneasy tension of living between the two. Don was an eager eight-year-old when he first started work in the stock camps on his grandfather’s cattle station in the early 1920s. In a series of yarns he delights in recalling the many colourful characters who crossed his path, and recollects the arduous and often dangerous life of a stockman.' (Source: IAD Press website)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Alice Springs, Southern Northern Territory, Northern Territory,: IAD Press , 2007 .
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      Extent: [xi], 178p.p.
      Description: illus., ports., map
      ISBN: 9781864650662 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Two Cultures Can Hold Each Other Michael Giacometti , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 70 no. 2 2011; (p. 14-15)
New Release Books 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 15 August no. 407 2007; (p. 51)

— Review of Contemporary Indigenous Plays 2007 anthology drama ; The Circuit Beck Cole , Kelly Lefever , Mitch Torres , Dot West , 2007 single work film/TV ; The Versatile Man : The Life and Times of Don Ross, Kaytetye Stockman Alexander Donald Pwerle Ross , Terry Whitebeach , 2007 single work autobiography
New Release Books 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 15 August no. 407 2007; (p. 51)

— Review of Contemporary Indigenous Plays 2007 anthology drama ; The Circuit Beck Cole , Kelly Lefever , Mitch Torres , Dot West , 2007 single work film/TV ; The Versatile Man : The Life and Times of Don Ross, Kaytetye Stockman Alexander Donald Pwerle Ross , Terry Whitebeach , 2007 single work autobiography
Two Cultures Can Hold Each Other Michael Giacometti , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 70 no. 2 2011; (p. 14-15)
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