The Rivers of Home: Frank Lacy - Kimberley Pioneer by Marion Nixon

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some printing marks on title page.

Frank Lacy was born in New Zealand in 1899, the son of a harbour master. Aged 24, he visited Australia intending to holiday but ended up staying. During the next twenty years, he worked on the controversial Forrest Rivers Aboriginal Mission.

Travelling to Wyndham in 1937, he was contracted to do the Mule Pack Royal Mail run between Fitzroy Crossing and Halls Creek. During the war years, he took up droving bullocks to Katherine and later between Fitzroy River and Broome.

In 1946, he and his wife purchased a pastoral lease for Mt Elizabeth Station, located between Kununurra and Derby, on the Gibb River. They survived the hardships of pioneering and great economic difficulties. They are buried at the station. (back cover)