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Bush lives 2: more tales from the Tasmanian backblocks
Forty South Publishing, Cambridge, Tas, 2025<\/h2>\n

Mysterious reefs, lost graves, forgotten huts, mistaken locations, phantom-like personalities. These are blessings and challenges to an historian. Disappearing ways of life and our vanishing bush heritage also lure me into the historical backblocks. The stories in this volume explore remote Tasmanian lives and lifestyles.<\/p>\n

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On the ossie: Tasmanian osmiridium and the fountain pen industry.<\/h2>\n

On the ossie: Tasmanian osmiridium and the fountain pen industry.<\/p>\n

Millions of words flowed from the serpentine hills of western Tasmania. The Waratah and Adamsfield districts produced \u2018point metal\u2019 osmiridium, used to tip the gold nibs of fountain pens. For a time in the early 1900s Tasmania had a world monopoly on point metal \u2018ossie\u2019\u2014an alloy much more valuable than gold. Sent to New York and London to drive Waterman, Swan, Sheaffer, Parker, Onoto and Conway Stewart pens, Tasmanian osmiridium became a signatory to startling world events. It also bolstered family budgets at home. To be \u2018on the ossie\u2019 was to have the chance to escape poverty and drudgery. Like gold strikes across the globe, Tasmania\u2019s rare earth quickened diggers\u2019 pulses\u2014and, astonishingly, inspired a challenge to Hollywood dominance of Australian cinemas.<\/p>\n

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Wonderstruck: treasuring Tasmania\u2019s caves and karst: a history of Tasmanian cave tourism, exploration and conservation, Forty South Publishing, Lindisfarne, Tas, 2015.<\/h2>\n

Caves are places of wonder and mystery. By 1840 a Gothic regime of candles and bark torches. heightened the thrill of the \u2018Sublime\u2019 within Wet Cave on Mole Creek, in northern Tasmania. More than a dozen Tasmanian tourist caves, from Gunns Plains to Ida Bay, have glistened in guiding light. Farmers turned to home-baked hospitality when the Industrial Revolution mobilised urban excursionists, opening private \u2018show\u2019 caves by the glow of acetylene gas. After World War II, Sam Carey\u2019s Tasmanian Caverneering Club, the first Australian caving club, began a quest to discover, record and protect Tasmanian caves which continues today. Wonderstruck: treasuring Tasmania\u2019s caves and karst is the story of these journeys of subterranean discovery, the myths and the legends, the explorers and the ecological battlegrounds, the \u2018master\u2019 caves and the megafauna dens, the entrepreneurs and the raconteurs.<\/p>\n

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Historic Tasmanian mountain huts: through the photographer\u2019s lens, Forty South Publishing, Lindisfarne, Tas, 2014 (with Simon Cubit)<\/h2>\n

The introduction of portable dry plate cameras in the late 1870s marked the beginning of a golden age of Tasmanian landscape photography. With cameras on their backs, adventurers explored the wilds of Tasmania, recording not just the dramatic physical features they found but also the typically rough shelters of the miners, hunters, stockmen and piners who lived or worked in the bush. In this beautiful book Simon Cubit and Nic Haygarth use this rich photographic heritage as the basis for a series of extraordinary stories about human enterprise in the Tasmanian highlands.<\/p>\n

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Mountain men: stories from the Tasmanian high country, Forty South Publishing, Lindisfarne, Tas, 2015 (with Simon Cubit)<\/h2>\n

Mountain men comprises the stories of ten men who lived or worked in the Tasmanian high country from 1870 to 1990. Hunters, mineral prospectors, guides, rangers and tourism operators, horse riders and walkers, they all played a role in the development of nature tourism and recreation in the Cradle Mountain\u2013Lake St Clair region. More than just a collection of biographies, the book creates a compelling narrative of the European history of today\u2019s central highlands.<\/p>\n

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James Walden (1831\u20131934): an early Australian merchant and his family, Walden Family, Sydney, 2015.<\/h2>\n

The book is about Launceston skins and grain merchant James Walden (1831-1934) and his family. James was not only a man of remarkable longevity but of remarkable enterprise, amassing a fortune, building a magnificent house, ‘Beauty Park’ at Newstead, Launceston, and exporting not only to the mainland colonies and states but to New Zealand and England. Today his descendants are spread across at least four countries.<\/p>\n

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Joe Fagan\u2019s Waratah: celebrating the life of a great west coaster, Joe Fagan Jnr, Waratah, 2009.<\/h2>\n

Waratah born \u2026 Waratah bred \u2026 Joe Fagan was a West Coast success story. When the dust settled on Waratah\u2019s world-famous Mount Bischoff tin mine in 1947, the enterprising miner\u2019s son was already building a workforce and marshalling machines. Joe\u2019s command of heavy industry enabled him to exploit the West Coast\u2019s \u2018second coming\u2019 after 1955\u2014and thereby ensure Waratah\u2019s survival. Mines like Savage River, Renison, Cleveland and Que River reverberated to Fagan haulage and construction work. Bushman axeman, publican, businessman benefactor and municipal warden: Joe was all these things and more. He was \u2018patriarch\u2019 of Waratah, renewing the historic Tasmanian town he called home.<\/p>\n

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The Norfolk Plains: a history of Longford, Perth, Cressy and Bishopsbourne, Tasmania, Northern Midlands Council, Longford, 2013.<\/h2>\n

In 1813 members of the abandoned Norfolk Island community were resettled on flats along the South Esk River about 15 kilometres from Launceston. Governor Lachlan Macquarie christened these flats the Norfolk Plains. They belonged to the Panninher Aboriginal people. Tribal Aboriginals were dispossessed of their hunting grounds, on which European settlers placed wheat, sheep and assigned convict workers. Longford, Cressy, Perth and Bishopsbourne developed as community hubs and supply centres for one of the richest agricultural districts in Tasmania. Today the Norfolk Plains are famous not just for their farming produce, but for their convict heritage, Georgian buildings, picture-perfect scenery and their enterprising, creative people.<\/p>\n

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The wild ride: revolutions that shaped Tasmanian black-and-white wilderness photography, National Trust (Tasmania), Launceston, 2008.<\/h2>\n

The Industrial Revolution drove Tasmanian black-and-white landscape photographers out of town to meet the wild one. The dry plate freed them technically. The illustrated newspaper and the postcard brought them an audience. The mining boom railed them to the bush, and the internal combustion engine crashed them through it. Hiking took them places no shutter had snapped.<\/p>\n

Social developments underpinned this charge: \u2018muscular\u2019 Christianity, higher living standards, \u2018progressive\u2019 nature study and the conservation movement. Wilderness photography raised environmental awareness long before Peter Dombrovskis\u2019s \u2018Rock Island Bend\u2019 helped free the Franklin River in 1983. New ideas, new gadgetry, fresh vistas and mountain air fueled the black-and-white brigade\u2019s rush for the bush. From the Sublime of John Watt Beattie to the Skyline Tour of Fred Smithies, The wild ride is their story.<\/p>\n

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Baron Bischoff: Philosopher Smith and the birth of Tasmanian mining, the author, Perth, Tas, 2004.<\/h2>\n

For a man whose 44 years had been a lonely climb towards self-worth, the summit of Mount Bischoff must have been a giddy prospect for James \u2018Philosopher\u2019 Smith. He presided over a fortune, was embraced by his social \u2018betters\u2019, and was hailed as the father and saviour of Tasmania. All because of his discovery of tin in 1871, which triggered a mining boom and invigorated the island\u2019s social, political and economic development. Perhaps there was some truth in contemporary depictions of one man\u2019s journey into darkness which led to light.<\/p>\n

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A peopled frontier: the European heritage of the Tarkine, Circular Head Council, Smithton, 2009.<\/h2>\n

A peopled frontier explores two centuries of European use of an area known as the Tarkine, that is, the catchments of the Arthur and Pieman Rivers in north-western and western Tasmania. Chapters deal with European exploration, mining, droving and agistment, recreational and commercial fishing, hunting, transport, the timber industry, bushwalking, photography, off-road driving, canoeing, kayaking and rafting.<\/p>\n

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A view to Cradle: a history of Tasmania\u2019s Forth River high country, the author, Canberra, 1998.<\/h2>\n

The Cradle Mountain \u2018wilderness\u2019 is famous throughout the world. However, until now the story of Cradle and its surrounds has not been told. A view to Cradle is the story of the Forth River high country, peopled by highland pioneers such as Henry Hellyer, James \u2018Philosopher\u2019 Smith and Gustav Weindorfer. The account ranges from clashes between the Aborigines and Europeans during the period of white exploration, through the grazing, hunting, mining and timber industries, to the advent of tourism and the development of the national park. Richly illustrated with the work of outstanding early Tasmanian photographers, A view to Cradle captures the life and the landscape of this wild region.<\/p>\n

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Bush lives: tales from the Tasmanian backblocks
Forty South Publishing, Cambridge, Tas, 2024.<\/h2>\n

This is a rich account of life and leisure in the Tasmanian back country. Myth, romance and bush lifestyles that have mostly ceased to be mix it with \u2018townies\u2019 taking the airs and speculators in scrip. Chance encounters with Tasmanian tigers (thylacines), the post-Christmas dash for the bush, tough lives in hunting camps, tragedy in mining camps and the everyday aspirations of ordinary people in remote places all flavour this book.<\/p>\n

Copies signed by Nic will be delivered to your door.<\/p>\n

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Reports, articles and papers (from 2005)<\/h3>\n
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\u2018Frontiersmen five: the Gaffney brothers, building, supplying and hosting Tasmania\u2019s west coast mining fields\u2019<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, October 2019, vol.17, pp.59\u201374.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mining the Van Diemen\u2019s Land Company holdings 1851\u20131899: a case of bad luck and clever adaptation\u2019<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, October 2018, vol.16, pp.93\u2013110.<\/p>\n

\u2018Ernie Bond: market gardener for a mining town\u2019<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, October 2018, vol.16, pp.111\u201326.<\/p>\n

(with Tim Jetson) ‘From calf clubs to field days: a history of the Rural Youth Organisation of Tasmania’<\/i>, Rural Youth, Launceston, 2018.<\/p>\n

\u2018The myth of the dedicated thylacine hunter: stockman\u2013hunter culture and the decline of the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) in Tasmania during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\u2019<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.64, no.2, August 2017, pp.28\u201343.<\/p>\n

\u2018The tin man: George Renison Bell, Tasmanian mineral prospector\u2019,<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.14, October 2016, pp.61\u201376.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Cornwall of the antipodes\u2019: Josiah Rabling and the \u2018Cornish\u2019 tin boom at Mount Heemskirk, Tasmania, 1881\u201384\u2019,<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.15, October 2017.<\/p>\n

\u2018Shearing the Waratah: \u2018Cornish\u2019 tin recovery on the Arthur River system, 1878\u20131903\u2019,<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.15, October 2017.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u201dThe Broken Hill of Tasmania\u201d: the rise and fall of the 13-Mile silver-lead field, western Tasmania\u2019<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.13, October 2015, pp.102\u201310.<\/p>\n

\u2018Into the wild: the wiles of wilderness photographers<\/i>\u2019, in Into the wild: wilderness photography in Tasmania, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 2013, pp.12\u201221.<\/p>\n

\u2018Murray, Hugh Mervyn (1906\u20121982)\u2019<\/i>, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.18, Melbourne University Press, 2012, http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/murray-hugh-mervyn-15080<\/a><\/p>\n

“They call me \u2018Wildcat\u201d: William Aylett (1863\u20131952), career Tasmanian bushman\u2019<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.59, no.3, December 2012, pp.203\u201328 (this story has been reprinted in the book Mountain men).<\/p>\n

\u2018An island within an island: the maritime\/riverine culture of Tasmania\u2019s Pieman River goldfield 1877\u201385<\/i>\u2019, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.10, October 2012, pp.55\u201371.<\/p>\n

\u2018The original Gordon-below-Franklin dispute: Beattie, BHP and the Marble Cliffs\u2019<\/i>, ACKMA Journal, no.86, March 2012, pp.22\u201328. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/Gordon%20Below%20Franklin.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018A cup of tea with your cave, madam?: cave tourism as a cottage industry at Mole Creek 1894\u20121928\u2019<\/i>, ACKMA Journal, no.85, 2011, pp.7\u201316. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/a%20cup%20of%20tea%20with%20your%20cave.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Dan Pickett: pioneer cave guide\u2019; \u2018A cup of tea with your cave, madam?: cave tourism as a cottage industry at Mole Creek 1894\u20121928\u2019; \u2018\u201dIt is an alluvial soil and capable of being drained\u201d: the perilous survival of Dismal Swamp\u2019<\/i>. These three papers were included in the Proceedings of the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association Conference (Ulverstone: May 2011).<\/p>\n

\u2018Theophilus Jones: Tasmania through Anglo-Indian eyes in the 1880s and 1890s\u2019<\/i>, Proceedings of the Launceston Historical Society Symposium: the Indian connection with Tasmania (Launceston: 2011), pp.51\u201374. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/theophilus%20jones%20paper.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Observation and the amateur geologist: the success of \u2018self-culture\u2019 in Thomas Hainsworth\u2019s exploration of the Mersey\u2012Don coalfield, Tasmania\u2019<\/i> Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.9, September 2011, pp.54\u201373.<\/p>\n

‘Richness and prosperity: the life of WR Bell, Tasmanian mineral prospector’<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.57, no.3, December 2010, pp.204\u201236. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/wr%20bell%20paper.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Paddy Hartnett \u2013 Tasmanian frontiersman\u2019<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.57, no.2, August 2010, pp.80\u2012104 (with Simon Cubit: this story has been reprinted in the book Mountain men).<\/p>\n

\u2018Dolcoath of the Antipodes: Tasmania’s Mt Bischoff tin mine’<\/i>, Mining perspectives: Proceedings of the 8th International Mining History Congress (Redruth, Cornwall: 2009), pp.145\u201253. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/Dolcoath%20of%20the%20Antipodes.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

‘White knuckles in the underworld: the wild days of the Tasmanian Caverneering Club’<\/i>, Proceedings of the Australasian Karst and Cave Management Association Conference (Margaret River: 2009). (with Arthur Clarke: the same paper appeared in ACKMA Journal, March 2010, pp.35\u201242.)<\/p>\n

‘Pen-pushers with pans: 20th-century Tasmanian osmiridium mining’<\/i>, Mining history: Papers and Proceedings of the NAMHO Conference (Matlock, Derbyshire: 2009), vol.17, no.4, Winter 2009, pp.35\u201260. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/osmiridium.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

‘The summit of our ambitions: Cradle Mountain in the highland bushwalks of William Dubrelle Weston’<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.56, no.4, December 2009, pp.207\u201224. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/Summit%20of%20our%20ambition.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Bert Nichols \u2014 hunter, highland guide and pioneer ranger’<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, March 2009, vol.56 no.1, March 2009, pp.81\u201296 (with Simon Cubit: this story has been reprinted in the book Mountain men).<\/p>\n

Booming Tasmania: how the Anson\/Beattie photographic studio sold the island and itself 1880\u20121901<\/i>, 2008 (a report on research conducted under the terms of a State Library of Tasmania Research Fellowship).<\/p>\n

‘Beguiling the backblocks: travelling entertainers in rural northern Tasmania during the Victorian era’<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Launceston Historical Society Symposium: Rural life in northern Tasmania (Launceston: 2007), pp.10\u201221.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Ozone-whetted appetites and hearts devoid of care\u201d: cruising to Caveland in 19th-century Tasmania<\/i>\u2019 (presented at 2007 Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association Conference, Buchan, Victoria).<\/p>\n

Celebrating a century of Britton Timbers: Tasmania\u2019s blackwood dynasty<\/i>, Britton Timbers, Smithton, 2007.<\/p>\n

\u2018Mining comes to town: the Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company and the tin trade\u2019<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Launceston Historical Society Symposium: It\u2019s a busy place: Launceston from settlement to city (Launceston: 2006), pp.51\u201273. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/smelter.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

From the sublime to the skyline: some factors in the development of Tasmanian black and white wilderness photography<\/i>, 2006 (a report on research conducted under the terms of a State Library of Tasmania Research Fellowship).<\/p>\n

\u2018Hartnett, Patrick Joseph (Paddy) (1876\u20121944)\u2019<\/i>, Australian Dictionary of Biography, supplementary vol., 2005, http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/hartnett-patrick-joseph-paddy-12967<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mysterious reefs, lost graves, forgotten huts, mistaken locations, phantom-like personalities. These are blessings and challenges to an historian. Disappearing ways of life and our vanishing bush heritage also lure me into the historical backblocks. The stories in this volume explore remote Tasmanian lives and lifestyles.<\/div>\n
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\n\nMillions of words flowed from the serpentine hills of western Tasmania. The Waratah and Adamsfield districts produced \u2018point metal\u2019 osmiridium, used to tip the gold nibs of fountain pens. For a time in the early 1900s Tasmania had a world monopoly on point metal \u2018ossie\u2019\u2014an alloy much more valuable than gold. Sent to New York and London to drive Waterman, Swan, Sheaffer, Parker, Onoto and Conway Stewart pens, Tasmanian osmiridium became a signatory to startling world events. It also bolstered family budgets at home. To be \u2018on the ossie\u2019 was to have the chance to escape poverty and drudgery. Like gold strikes across the globe, Tasmania\u2019s rare earth quickened diggers\u2019 pulses\u2014and, astonishingly, inspired a challenge to Hollywood dominance of Australian cinemas.\n\nThis book can be bought online, click here<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\nCaves are places of wonder and mystery. By 1840 a Gothic regime of candles and bark torches. heightened the thrill of the \u2018Sublime\u2019 within Wet Cave on Mole Creek, in northern Tasmania. More than a dozen Tasmanian tourist caves, from Gunns Plains to Ida Bay, have glistened in guiding light. Farmers turned to home-baked hospitality when the Industrial Revolution mobilised urban excursionists, opening private \u2018show\u2019 caves by the glow of acetylene gas. After World War II, Sam Carey\u2019s Tasmanian Caverneering Club, the first Australian caving club, began a quest to discover, record and protect Tasmanian caves which continues today. Wonderstruck: treasuring Tasmania\u2019s caves and karst is the story of these journeys of subterranean discovery, the myths and the legends, the explorers and the ecological battlegrounds, the \u2018master\u2019 caves and the megafauna dens, the entrepreneurs and the raconteurs.\n\nThis book can be bought online, click here<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\nMountain men comprises the stories of ten men who lived or worked in the Tasmanian high country from 1870 to 1990. Hunters, mineral prospectors, guides, rangers and tourism operators, horse riders and walkers, they all played a role in the development of nature tourism and recreation in the Cradle Mountain\u2013Lake St Clair region. More than just a collection of biographies, the book creates a compelling narrative of the European history of today\u2019s central highlands.\n\nThis book is SOLD OUT<\/strong>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\nHistoric Tasmanian mountain huts: through the photographer\u2019s lens<\/i>, Forty South Publishing, Lindisfarne, Tas, 2014 (with Simon Cubit)<\/b>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\nThe introduction of portable dry plate cameras in the late 1870s marked the beginning of a golden age of Tasmanian landscape photography. With cameras on their backs, adventurers explored the wilds of Tasmania, recording not just the dramatic physical features they found but also the typically rough shelters of the miners, hunters, stockmen and piners who lived or worked in the bush. In this beautiful book Simon Cubit and Nic Haygarth use this rich photographic heritage as the basis for a series of extraordinary stories about human enterprise in the Tasmanian highlands.\n\nThis book can be bought online here<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\nIn 1813 members of the abandoned Norfolk Island community were resettled on flats along the South Esk River about 15 kilometres from Launceston. Governor Lachlan Macquarie christened these flats the Norfolk Plains. They belonged to the Panninher Aboriginal people. Tribal Aboriginals were dispossessed of their hunting grounds, on which European settlers placed wheat, sheep and assigned convict workers. Longford, Cressy, Perth and Bishopsbourne developed as community hubs and supply centres for one of the richest agricultural districts in Tasmania. Today the Norfolk Plains are famous not just for their farming produce, but for their convict heritage, Georgian buildings, picture-perfect scenery and their enterprising, creative people.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\nWaratah born \u2026 Waratah bred \u2026 Joe Fagan was a West Coast success story. When the dust settled on Waratah\u2019s world-famous Mount Bischoff tin mine in 1947, the enterprising miner\u2019s son was already building a workforce and marshalling machines. Joe\u2019s command of heavy industry enabled him to exploit the West Coast\u2019s \u2018second coming\u2019 after 1955\u2014and thereby ensure Waratah\u2019s survival. Mines like Savage River, Renison, Cleveland and Que River reverberated to Fagan haulage and construction work. Bushman axeman, publican, businessman benefactor and municipal warden: Joe was all these things and more. He was \u2018patriarch\u2019 of Waratah, renewing the historic Tasmanian town he called home.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\nThe Industrial Revolution drove Tasmanian black-and-white landscape photographers out of town to meet the wild one. The dry plate freed them technically. The illustrated newspaper and the postcard brought them an audience. The mining boom railed them to the bush, and the internal combustion engine crashed them through it. Hiking took them places no shutter had snapped.\n\nSocial developments underpinned this charge: \u2018muscular\u2019 Christianity, higher living standards, \u2018progressive\u2019 nature study and the conservation movement. Wilderness photography raised environmental awareness long before Peter Dombrovskis\u2019s \u2018Rock Island Bend\u2019 helped free the Franklin River in 1983. New ideas, new gadgetry, fresh vistas and mountain air fueled the black-and-white brigade\u2019s rush for the bush. From the Sublime of John Watt Beattie to the Skyline Tour of Fred Smithies, The wild ride is their story.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\nA peopled frontier: the European heritage of the Tarkine<\/i>, Circular Head Council, Smithton, 2009.<\/b>\n\nA peopled frontier explores two centuries of European use of an area known as the Tarkine, that is, the catchments of the Arthur and Pieman Rivers in north-western and western Tasmania. Chapters deal with European exploration, mining, droving and agistment, recreational and commercial fishing, hunting, transport, the timber industry, bushwalking, photography, off-road driving, canoeing, kayaking and rafting.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\nA view to Cradle: a history of Tasmania\u2019s Forth River high country<\/i>, the author, Canberra, 1998.<\/b>\n\nThe Cradle Mountain \u2018wilderness\u2019 is famous throughout the world. However, until now the story of Cradle and its surrounds has not been told. A view to Cradle is the story of the Forth River high country, peopled by highland pioneers such as Henry Hellyer, James \u2018Philosopher\u2019 Smith and Gustav Weindorfer. The account ranges from clashes between the Aborigines and Europeans during the period of white exploration, through the grazing, hunting, mining and timber industries, to the advent of tourism and the development of the national park. Richly illustrated with the work of outstanding early Tasmanian photographers, A view to Cradle captures the life and the landscape of this wild region.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Reports, articles and papers (from 2005)<\/h3>\n
\n\n\u2018Frontiersmen five: the Gaffney brothers, building, supplying and hosting Tasmania\u2019s west coast mining fields\u2019<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, October 2019, vol.17, pp.59\u201374.\n\n\u2018Mining the Van Diemen\u2019s Land Company holdings 1851\u20131899: a case of bad luck and clever adaptation\u2019<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, October 2018, vol.16, pp.93\u2013110.\n\n\u2018Ernie Bond: market gardener for a mining town\u2019<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, October 2018, vol.16, pp.111\u201326.\n\n(with Tim Jetson) 'From calf clubs to field days: a history of the Rural Youth Organisation of Tasmania'<\/i>, Rural Youth, Launceston, 2018.\n\n\u2018The myth of the dedicated thylacine hunter: stockman\u2013hunter culture and the decline of the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) in Tasmania during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\u2019<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.64, no.2, August 2017, pp.28\u201343.\n\n\u2018The tin man: George Renison Bell, Tasmanian mineral prospector\u2019,<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.14, October 2016, pp.61\u201376.\n\n\u2018The Cornwall of the antipodes\u2019: Josiah Rabling and the \u2018Cornish\u2019 tin boom at Mount Heemskirk, Tasmania, 1881\u201384\u2019,<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.15, October 2017.\n\n\u2018Shearing the Waratah: \u2018Cornish\u2019 tin recovery on the Arthur River system, 1878\u20131903\u2019,<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.15, October 2017.\n\n\u2018\u201dThe Broken Hill of Tasmania\u201d: the rise and fall of the 13-Mile silver-lead field, western Tasmania\u2019<\/i>, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.13, October 2015, pp.102\u201310.\n\n\u2018Into the wild: the wiles of wilderness photographers<\/i>\u2019, in Into the wild: wilderness photography in Tasmania, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, 2013, pp.12\u201221.\n\n\u2018Murray, Hugh Mervyn (1906\u20121982)\u2019<\/i>, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.18, Melbourne University Press, 2012, http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/murray-hugh-mervyn-15080<\/a>\n\n\"They call me \u2018Wildcat\u201d: William Aylett (1863\u20131952), career Tasmanian bushman\u2019<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.59, no.3, December 2012, pp.203\u201328 (this story has been reprinted in the book Mountain men).\n\n\u2018An island within an island: the maritime\/riverine culture of Tasmania\u2019s Pieman River goldfield 1877\u201385<\/i>\u2019, Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.10, October 2012, pp.55\u201371.\n\n\u2018The original Gordon-below-Franklin dispute: Beattie, BHP and the Marble Cliffs\u2019<\/i>, ACKMA Journal, no.86, March 2012, pp.22\u201328. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/Gordon%20Below%20Franklin.pdf<\/a>\n\n\u2018A cup of tea with your cave, madam?: cave tourism as a cottage industry at Mole Creek 1894\u20121928\u2019<\/i>, ACKMA Journal, no.85, 2011, pp.7\u201316. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/a%20cup%20of%20tea%20with%20your%20cave.pdf<\/a>\n\n\u2018Dan Pickett: pioneer cave guide\u2019; \u2018A cup of tea with your cave, madam?: cave tourism as a cottage industry at Mole Creek 1894\u20121928\u2019; \u2018\u201dIt is an alluvial soil and capable of being drained\u201d: the perilous survival of Dismal Swamp\u2019<\/i>. These three papers were included in the Proceedings of the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association Conference (Ulverstone: May 2011).\n\n\u2018Theophilus Jones: Tasmania through Anglo-Indian eyes in the 1880s and 1890s\u2019<\/i>, Proceedings of the Launceston Historical Society Symposium: the Indian connection with Tasmania (Launceston: 2011), pp.51\u201374. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/theophilus%20jones%20paper.pdf<\/a>\n\n'Observation and the amateur geologist: the success of \u2018self-culture\u2019 in Thomas Hainsworth\u2019s exploration of the Mersey\u2012Don coalfield, Tasmania\u2019<\/i> Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol.9, September 2011, pp.54\u201373.\n\n'Richness and prosperity: the life of WR Bell, Tasmanian mineral prospector'<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.57, no.3, December 2010, pp.204\u201236. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/wr%20bell%20paper.pdf<\/a>\n\n\u2018Paddy Hartnett \u2013 Tasmanian frontiersman\u2019<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.57, no.2, August 2010, pp.80\u2012104 (with Simon Cubit: this story has been reprinted in the book Mountain men).\n\n\u2018Dolcoath of the Antipodes: Tasmania's Mt Bischoff tin mine'<\/i>, Mining perspectives: Proceedings of the 8th International Mining History Congress (Redruth, Cornwall: 2009), pp.145\u201253. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/Dolcoath%20of%20the%20Antipodes.pdf<\/a>\n\n'White knuckles in the underworld: the wild days of the Tasmanian Caverneering Club'<\/i>, Proceedings of the Australasian Karst and Cave Management Association Conference (Margaret River: 2009). (with Arthur Clarke: the same paper appeared in ACKMA Journal, March 2010, pp.35\u201242.)\n\n'Pen-pushers with pans: 20th-century Tasmanian osmiridium mining'<\/i>, Mining history: Papers and Proceedings of the NAMHO Conference (Matlock, Derbyshire: 2009), vol.17, no.4, Winter 2009, pp.35\u201260. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/osmiridium.pdf<\/a>\n\n'The summit of our ambitions: Cradle Mountain in the highland bushwalks of William Dubrelle Weston'<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, vol.56, no.4, December 2009, pp.207\u201224. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/Summit%20of%20our%20ambition.pdf<\/a>\n\n'Bert Nichols \u2014 hunter, highland guide and pioneer ranger'<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, March 2009, vol.56 no.1, March 2009, pp.81\u201296 (with Simon Cubit: this story has been reprinted in the book Mountain men).\n\nBooming Tasmania: how the Anson\/Beattie photographic studio sold the island and itself 1880\u20121901<\/i>, 2008 (a report on research conducted under the terms of a State Library of Tasmania Research Fellowship).\n\n'Beguiling the backblocks: travelling entertainers in rural northern Tasmania during the Victorian era'<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Launceston Historical Society Symposium: Rural life in northern Tasmania (Launceston: 2007), pp.10\u201221.\n\n\u201c\u2018Ozone-whetted appetites and hearts devoid of care\u201d: cruising to Caveland in 19th-century Tasmania<\/i>\u2019 (presented at 2007 Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association Conference, Buchan, Victoria).\n\nCelebrating a century of Britton Timbers: Tasmania\u2019s blackwood dynasty<\/i>, Britton Timbers, Smithton, 2007.\n\n\u2018Mining comes to town: the Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company and the tin trade\u2019<\/i>, Papers and Proceedings of the Launceston Historical Society Symposium: It\u2019s a busy place: Launceston from settlement to city (Launceston: 2006), pp.51\u201273. http:\/\/waratah.vpweb.com.au\/upload\/smelter.pdf<\/a>\n\nFrom the sublime to the skyline: some factors in the development of Tasmanian black and white wilderness photography<\/i>, 2006 (a report on research conducted under the terms of a State Library of Tasmania Research Fellowship).\n\n\u2018Hartnett, Patrick Joseph (Paddy) (1876\u20121944)\u2019<\/i>, Australian Dictionary of Biography, supplementary vol., 2005, http:\/\/adb.anu.edu.au\/biography\/hartnett-patrick-joseph-paddy-12967<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichaygarth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichaygarth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichaygarth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichaygarth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichaygarth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":125,"href":"https:\/\/nichaygarth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6441,"href":"https:\/\/nichaygarth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/6441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichaygarth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}