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y separately published work icon Unsung Heroes : Stories from the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre anthology   biography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Unsung Heroes : Stories from the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre
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'These one hundred and fifty true stories give voice to the many men and women who played an important part in establishing Australia's pioneering spirit but who mostly didn't make it into the history books.

'Drawn from the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame 'Unsung Heroes' database, they reveal the characters who were drovers, property owners, shearers, missionaries and amateur explorers. They bring outback history alive as do tales of the bush folk who built the fences, baked the bread, taught the children, provided entertainment, shod the horses, tended the sick and enforced the law.

'From veteran expeditioner Ned Ryan, to possum trapper Harry Stevens, Boer War veteran Jack Kyle-Little and eccentric pioneers Charles and Cora Chalmers, these are stories of resilience, courage and luck, about people with more grit than an outback sandstorm. ' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Editor's note: All royalites from the sales of this book go to the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre. Situated in Queensland's central western town of Longreach, it is Australia's premier outback heritage destination.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2013 .
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      Extent: viii, 279 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of platesp.
      Description: photographs, portraits
      Note/s:

      • - Forward by John Williamson

        - Includes index.

        - Published: 26/06/2013

      ISBN: 9781921901829 (paperback) :
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Works about this Work

The Bush Heroes You Don't Know Kris Crane , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3-4 August 2013; (p. 19)
— Review of Unsung Heroes : Stories from the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre 2013 anthology biography
The Bush Heroes You Don't Know Kris Crane , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3-4 August 2013; (p. 19)
— Review of Unsung Heroes : Stories from the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre 2013 anthology biography
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