Origins of Travelling Stock Routes. 1. Connections to Indigenous traditional pathways

Rangeland Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-339

  Spooner, P G ^a   Firman, M ^a   Yalmambirra, ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

drovers; historic roads; indigenous knowledge; settlement history; squatters

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956658764     PISSN: 10369872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RJ10009     Document Type: Article

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