Australian Aboriginal Studies, March 22nd, 2005
Tom and Jack: a frontier story
Geraldine Byrne
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2003, 303 pp, ISBN 1920731075
Geraldine Byrne's carefully researched social history tells the story of the overland cattle drives across northern Australia to the Kimberley in the 1880s, and of the establishment and development of Rosewood pastoral station, through the lens of station owners Tom Kilfoyle and his son Jack. The Irish Australian Tom Kilfoyle was a great cattleman of exceptional endurance and skill, and his son Jack an independently minded northern Australian character born and bred in the ...
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