Horsemen of the Outback - their spurs and their spurmakers (Revised edition) by Don J Corcoran
This is an extremely well researched work that will be treasured by all horse riders. It is a very thorough account of Australian spurs and the bush blacksmiths like Fred Gutte who designed his on Wave Hill Station. It offers a romantic folklore of the horsemen who used the spurs on their sometiimes dangerous and often lonely rides on the cattle stations between outback Queensland and the Kimberleys. Playing their part in the book includes George Booth, Kelly Dixon, Ray Macnamara, Jack Sammon, Rodney Watson, Pic Willetts, ringers Frank Bunyan, Rob Dempster, Roy Hulbert, Ian Kelly, and a host of others, including Edna Zigenbine Jessop, Geoff Allen, Gerry Ash, Ron Bostock, Buck Buchester, Stewart Campbell etc. Over300 photos..