Alternative title: Campfire Tales : an Anthology of True Stories of the Pioneering Days from Around the Campfire, Feature in the North Queensland Register
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Editor's note: 'The cover illustration is a photograph of a painting by J. H. Scheltema which appeared in the 1911 Christmas supplement of the "North Queensland Register".'
Contents have been organised into fifteen groups: 1. Horses and Horsemen of the Past; 2. Lost in the Bush, and Other Tragedies; 3. This Was Their Land; 4. Pioneers; 5. Where History Was Made; 6. Shearers and Bushworkers; 7. Teamsters and Early Motor Transport; 8. Old Time Experiences; 9. Long Distance Rides; 10. Pathfinding and Droving; 11. Mining, and Prospectors; 12. Pioneer Women; 13. Bush Characters; 14. Old Time Stations and Station Men; and, 15. Old Days, Old Ways.
Contents
* Contents derived from the Mareeba,Mareeba area,Mareeba - Atherton - Ravenshoe area,Ingham - Cairns area,Queensland,:Pinevale Publications,1981 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Sketches the relationships between Boer War hero, John Joseph (Robbie) Robinson, and the many horses he had owned, trained and worked with over his lifetime.
A reflection upon an early instance of women participating in the male-dominated field of horse-racing, when a Ladies' Race was held in the late 1880s on the occasion of the Governor's visit to the now non-existent town of Montalbion.
A station manager attempts to impress a neighbouring station owner's wife with the quality of the horses he had bred by taking her on a buggy ride, but things go awry as the horses take fright.
The story of 'Red Jack', or Hannah Glennan, whose childhood was spent on an isolated station where she developed expert skills as a horse-breaker. With her life dogged by tragedy with the deaths of her parents, siblings, and husband,
while still a young woman Hannah took to the outback routes and lived the rest of her life as a nomadic horse-breaker until she too was killed in a fall from a horse.
