The Boss Drover and his Mates
Author: Anne Marie Ingham
Celebrating 90 years of the Drover's Dancing Cook
Emily was a dancing instructor who took on the rigours of droving on the dreaded Murranji Track when she married Clarrie, Boss Drover, in 1961.
It takes us back to the grim days of the depression, when 12 year old Clarrie left home on the Murray River, to find a better life on the great stock routes, taking huge mobs of cattle to Queensland, from stations in WA and the Territory.
The drovers are gone now, and Clarrie is no longer alive.But their hair raising adventures and their sense of humour lives on - in the memories of Emily and the shrinking ranks of her old mates - and in the wondrous pages of this book.