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Frank Hann's Lolworth diaries, 1866-1875 / transcribed and edited by Ian Elliott.

Title: Frank Hann's Lolworth diaries, 1866-1875 / transcribed and edited by Ian Elliott.
Author: Hann, Frank, 1845-1921
Publication: Carlisle, Western Australia : Hesperian Press, 2013.

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Description

vi, 186 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 30 cm

Summary

These diaries are a remarkable daily documentation of a decade of effort at the very beginning of North Queensland's cattle industry. They were kept by Frank, youngest son of the pioneering Hann family, during his management of Lolworth Station near the Great Basalt Wall eastward of present-day Charters Towers. The entries are peopled by such giants of North Queensland history as Frank's oldest brother, William, whose exploration of the Cape York Peninsula would bring the tree kangaroo to the notice of naturalists and lead to the discovery of the Palmer River Goldfields, and Richard Daintree, geologist and photographer, whose mineral reports resulted in North Queensland's first goldrush to the Cape River. Lolworth was adjacent to the Cape River Goldfield and supplied cattle to butchers at the Diggings as thousands of Chinese and others flooded the region and fortunes were won and lost. Clashes between cattlemen and Aborigines are mentioned and occasional visits to Townsville and other settlements give revealing snippets of town life on the frontier. The diaries are an astonishing record of the pioneer years of mustering, droving and the establishment of rural infrastructure in North Queensland, a record that amazes modern pastoralists by the distances routinely travelled, even during the wet, when travel was by horseback, bullock wagon and Cobb & Co. coaches and before the advent of formed roads. After lying hidden at Hann stations for over a century, family members are happy to have the diaries now made available to all with more than 270 explanatory footnotes.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Diaries
History

Note

Includes name index which identifies Aboriginal people named in the text.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

9780859055475
0859055477

OCLC

828711081
SCSB-10153843

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library