01989nam 2200373 450 991079333030332120191107170036.01-76087-017-X(CKB)4100000007386678(MiAaPQ)EBC5612844(EXLCZ)99410000000738667820190102d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe squatters the story of Australia's pastoral pioneers /Barry StoneSydney :Allen & Unwin,2019.1 online resource (254 pages)1-76029-153-6 For the early settlers who came from Britain's crowded cities and tiny villages, it must have been extraordinarily liberating to pack their belongings onto a bullock dray and head beyond the reach of meddlesome authorities to claim new land for themselves. Settlers spread out across inland Australia constructing windmills and fences, dry-stone walls and storehouses, livestock yards and droving routes, the traces of which can still be seen today. The fortunate and indomitable succeeded, while countless others succumbed to drought and flood. Those who were successful became a class all their own: the scrub aristocrats. Barry Stone has scoured through diaries, journals and newspapers, and sorted myth from legend. He tells the stories of pioneers whose vision and hard work built pastoral empires running thousands of head of stock, providing meat for a growing colony and wool for export, a rural juggernaut that would lay the foundations of a prosperous nation.PioneersAustraliaBiographyAustraliaHistory1788-1900Pioneers994.0099Stone Barry1573060MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793330303321The squatters3848593UNINA