'Pioneers of the Kimberley' is the story of five generations of outback women and men. It is the moving tale of Maggie Lilly and many other pioneers who shared the heroic struggle for the life in the Northwest. Now an energetic 88, Maggie Lilly has moved to Kununurra, after a lifetime in Wyndham and on the Bow River Station which she and her family built up. Her amazing career is a snapshot of 20th century northern Australian and its characters.
All sorts of fascinating people have passed through Maggie's world - celebrated writers and aviators, Afghan camel drivers, royalty and VIPs, seamen and bushmen, crackpots and geniuses, and many of the Aboriginal people of her remote neighbourhood.
Anne Ingham's special gift for telling true stories brings people who are now long gone to full blooded life on the same pages as the young and not so young of today's outback.
Contents:
Author's Note
Foreword
1. Little Maggie
2. Growing up in Wyndham
3. Life at the Nine Mile
4. Enter Sammy Soapsuds
5. Maggie and Sam
6. Buying the Bow
7. Lillys of the Bow
8. How the Lillys Grew
9. Back to the Six Mile
10. The Long and Winding Road
The Sting in the Tale!
Acknowledgments
