On the track with Bill Bowyang, with Australian bush recitations, 1991-1992

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Series 43

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On the track with Bill Bowyang with Australian bush recitations was published by Red Rooster Press in 1991. Journalist, publisher and occasional swagman, Alexander Vennard took 'Bill Bowyang' as a pen-name around 1915. He also published under the name 'Frank Reid'. He was best known as the editor of a column in the North Queensland Register called 'On the track'. The column published verse, song, and other items of bush lore, mostly contributed by readers.

The series consists of typescript of introduction, drafts, paste-up copy and galley proofs, biographical information and notes on Alexander Vennard and index cards of song titles and first lines of verse.

Names:

Anderson, Hugh

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