10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BANGTAIL MUSTER»
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bangtail muster in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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We'll havea bangtail muster and count everyone.' 'Well, sir,' the manager said, '
Ican assure you thatitis correct, give or take a few. A bangtail muster will be
extremely timeconsuming and it is not really necessary.' 'No,' Glasgow said, 'I
want a ...
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Desert Lake: Art, Science and Stories from Paruku
I had to come out and work here and do my muster, bangtail muster and
everything. I had a bloke coming here for an aerial muster, doing all my muster
for me. And I was here working at the same time before I took over the properties
for the ...
Mandy Martin, John Carty, Steve Morton, 2013
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
A fringeof hair (usually curledor frizzled) cutsquarely across the forehead. As verb
,tocut (or wear) the hairin this fashion. Also bangtail, bangtailed, bangtail muster (
of horses): see quot. 1887. 1887. Tyrwhitt,New Chum in Queensland Bush, 62.
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A Nurse Abroad: Adventures in nursing, from the Arctic to ...
Betty, making coolomon for carrying food or babies Abori inal cam l r Ioe, holding
the king Aboriginal camp elder brown snake Anne and friend, up early on
Bangtail Muster day for chicken and champagne breakfast Anne in fancy dress
as a ...
They're in the middle of a bangtail muster.” Eric remembered Ron talking about
pikers in the scrubs around Virgin Bore on that first evening, which now seemed
so long ago. They had made a sweep through those scrubs once and he had ...
Unfortunately for the Government, most of the properties had been bought on '
book numbers' and not on the number of cattle actually mustered in a 'bangtail'
muster where each beast mustered was identified by 'banging' or cutting off the ...
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Barefoot Through the Bindies
So once a year there'd be a big bangtail muster and people from the different
stations would come and look after their own. That was when you counted what
stock you had. All the cattle would be brought in small mobs and put in a crush,
and ...
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Dictionary of Americanisms, Briticisms, Canadianisms and ...
bangtail muster Aus. a count of cattle on a station. bangup Am., Can. col.
excellent. bangup job Am. col. a very successful piece of work. bangzone Am.
zone ofsonic boom/ from airplanes. banjaxed Am.sl. demolished, ruined. banjo
Aus.,NZ.
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The Outback Vs the Wild West
Dun could well have beneted from some time in Australia's cattle country where
the bangtail muster was established practice. (Cutting the tail hair off each beast
counted to prevent stock being included more than once in a tally.) Finlay Dun's ...
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Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures and Hard Yakka : a ...
grazing of particular areas and soil erosion started.508 There was, for example, a
rapid build-up of Ord River station cattle numbers depastured on the river flats,
from 400 in 1885 to 30,000 in 1896 and 47,000 at the bangtail muster in 1901–02
...
Michael Pearson, Jane Lennon, 2010
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BANGTAIL MUSTER»
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bangtail muster is used in the context of the following news items.
Push grows to make Territory Day a public holiday but Adam Giles …
The organisers of the Alice Springs Charity event the Bangtail Muster have warned the government against scrapping the May Day public ... «ABC Local, Feb 14»
History mystery, ABC Open needs your help
I've got one image from the Trudy Hayes collection from the Alice Springs Public Library which is of the Bangtail muster near the Wallis Fogarty ... «ABC Online, Feb 12»
Alice Springs celebrates annual Bangtail Muster
The Bangtail Muster has been running for more than half a century and is traditionally the start of the mustering season in Central Australia. «ABC Local, May 11»
