Dimensions
154 x 228 x 18mm
He left home in his teens and went bush. For months he trekked through the deserts and ranges of Central Australia as the camel-man of a two-man expedition. He then worked as a drover.
The sale of a handmade pack-saddle to Sir Sidney Kidman for five pounds was the beginning of a business which grew rapidly. Soon bushmen from all over Australia were sending 'cash with order' for R.M.'s elastic-sided boots and other products. The mail-order business made him wealthy and positioned him as a household name throughout the bush.
Always restless and enterprising, R.M. has never been content just to be a businessman. The bush is his greatest love, and throughout his life he has remained as close to it as possible, droving, running cattle-stations, and breeding and training horses. From gold-mining in the Northern Territory, to tea-planting in the New Guinea Highlands, publishing poetry and establishing the Stockman's Hall of Fame, R.M. Williams has earned his place as a hero of the Australian bush.
