Steele Rudd - a Nobby Connection by Noel Lipp
This book covers the 'On Our Selection' author, Arthur Hoey Davis, or Steele Rudd as we know him, spanning his Nobby years 1909 to 1917. Nobby is a farming community just to the south of Toowoomba. This book has a great Bibliography and References section. The author's family farm adjoined the Steele Rudd family farm at Greenmount and much local research has been done for this book. Chapters include Steele Rudd Corner, Life a decade before The Firs, a farm called The Firs, Nobby Provisional School, Two dramatic plays of The Firs era, an early Presbyterian Church connection, polo involvement re-born, the first Chairman of the Cambooya Shire, Steele Rudd and Little Jens, local Davis land in the era post 1900, Gower's World War I commitment, departure from The Firs and The Steele Rudd Phenomenon Today.