Author

Publication

2014 - Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, W. A, Western Australia

Language

English

Word Count

29,000 words, Guess

Page Count

116 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCDU380.K5 C367 2014x

Description

Bill McDonald droved from Queensland through the Territory and settled in the Kimberley. Mary Darcy moved from Darwin to the Kimberley and grew up around Wyndham. They married in 1923. Later they shifted to the Nullarbor, starting the Cocklebiddy roadhouse in 1957. Bill writes of the characters of early Kimberley and incidents of life and death. Mary, of the people and their lives, in an endearing personal way. Covered are the deaths of Condren & Sullivan, life on Ruby Plains Station with the Darcy family, the Hyland girls, and many other items of interest of the near forgotten years between the wars.

Subjects

Topics

Places

AustraliaKimberley (W.A.)Nullarbor Plain (S.A. and W.A.)Nullarbor Plain (S. Aust. and W.A.)

People

Mary McDonaldBill McDonald (1902-1979)

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