The Chase of the White Kangaroo single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1899... 1899 The Chase of the White Kangaroo
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Working the land for a group of colonial settlers involves many adventures, including rounding up feral cattle, contending with the legendary visits of deceased predecessors, hunting emus, and, of tracking down an enormous white kangaroo.

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  • Epigraph: The saddle was our childhood's home, / Our heritage - the steed. Rolf Boldrewood

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The Stockwhip Song i "See, as the dawn breaks rosy-red, the jovial stockman issue", William Sylvester Walker , 1899 extract poetry (The Chase of the White Kangaroo)
— Appears in: From the Land of the Wombat 1899; (p. 143)
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