Place: Barcaldine District
Summary
Miscellaneous papers, obituaries, biographical notes, newspaper extracts, publications. Includes: An account of the founding of the Alice River Co-operative Settlement, in chronological note form. This socialistic farming scheme was designed to "form a home where bush workers could live whilst not engaged in their annual occupation…"; it did not thrive, and the property was sold in 1907. Manuscript, with details of the Shearers' Strike of 1891. Cowen, ReverendS.,5arcaldine Praeterita, or Pages from the Past, A Souvenir of Golden Fleece Celebrations, Back to Barcaldine Week, 1958, illus., pp.36. DISTRICT FILE.