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45 Years in the Great Nor-West of Western Australia
AU NBAC N31-2 · Item · 1933 - ?
Part of F H Bauer Collection

A six chapter account of Charles Edward Flinders' reminiscences, edited by J F Christie. Foreword by M P Durack.
Seven short articles by C E Flinders:

  • "Recollections of the Oil Finding in East Kimberley"
  • "Why giver our North away"
  • "Willy Willys"
  • "Port Headland and Condon"
  • Autobiographical article - no title
  • "Early Depudations (sic) by Natives of the Kimberleys"
  • "Bushmanship in the Early days" - An explanatory note by Dr Bauer can be found with these articles.
F H Bauer Collection
AU NBAC N31 · Deposit · 1873; 1933

Copy of the diary of R McGregor Watson re settlement of the Gulf Country, 1873; and Charles Edward Flinders, 45 Years in the Great Nor-West of Western Australia, 1933.

 Bauer, Francis Henry
R McGregor Watson Diary
AU NBAC N31-1 · Item · c. 1934
Part of F H Bauer Collection

A retrospective account of settlement in the Gulf Country, on Gregory Downs Station south of Burketown, Queensland. R McGregor Watson was a member of the Queensland pioneering family who overlanded cattle from the South in the 1870s. The Watson family originally settled at Walwa Station, Upper Murray, Victoria.