The Cattle King

The Cattle King

Author	Ion Idriess
Country	Australia
Language	English
Genre	biography
Publisher	Angus and Robertson
Publication date	1936

The Cattle King is an Australian biography of Sidney Kidman.^[1]^[2]

Idriess researched and wrote it through 1935.^[3]^[4] It was difficult for him to write, in part due to lack of help from Kidman.^[5]

Reception

It was one of Ion Idriess' best selling books.^[6]

References

↑ "THE CATTLE KING.". The Courier-Mail (Brisbane: National Library of Australia). 30 March 1936. p. 12. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
↑ "THE CATTLE KING.". Queensland Times (Ipswich, Queensland: National Library of Australia). 4 April 1936. p. 11 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
↑ "PERSONAL.". The Courier-Mail (Brisbane: National Library of Australia). 17 May 1935. p. 12. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
↑ "HEROINES.". The Sydney Morning Herald (National Library of Australia). 6 July 1935. p. 15. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
↑ The Cattle King at Idriess website
↑ Julian Croft, 'Idriess, Ion Llewellyn (1889–1979)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University accessed 18 August 2013.

External links

The Cattle King at Ion Idriess Fanpage
ABC Radio program on The Cattle King from 2011

Works by Ion Idriess

Novels	Madman's Island (1927) Drums of Mer (1933) Forty Fathoms Deep (1937) Isles of Despair (1947) The Wild White Man of Badu (1950) The Red Chief (1953)

Instructional	Prospecting for Gold (1931) Cyaniding for Gold (1939) Fortunes in Minerals (1941) Opals and Sapphires (1967)

Biographies	Lasseter's Last Ride (1931) Flynn of the Inland (1932) The Cattle King (1936) Horrie the Wog-dog (1945)

Autobiography	The Desert Column (1932) Men of the Jungle (1932) Madman's Island (1938) (revision) Lightning Ridge (1940) Back o' Cairns (1958) The Tin Scratchers (1959) My Mate Dick (1962)

History	Gold Dust and Ashes (1933) Man Tracks (1935) The Silent Service (1944) Stone of Destiny (1948) Outlaws of the Leopolds (1952) The Nor'-westers (1954) The Silver City (1956) Coral Sea Calling (1957)

Short Story Collections	The Yellow Joss (1934) The Wild North (1960)

Travel	Over the Range (1937) In Crocodile Land (1946) One Wet Season (1949) Across the Nullarbor (1951) Tracks of Destiny (1961)

Political	Must Australia Fight? (1939) The Great Boomerang (1941) Onward Australia (1943) Challenge of the North (1969)

Children's Books	Headhunters of the Coral Sea (1940) The Great Trek (1940) Nemarluk: King of the Wilds (1941) The Opium Smugglers (1947)

Australian Guerilla series	Australian Guerilla – Shoot to Kill (1942) Australian Guerilla – Sniping (1942) Australian Guerilla – Guerilla Tactics (1942) Australian Guerilla – Trapping the Jap (1943) Australian Guerilla – Lurking Death (1943) Australian Guerilla – The Scout (1943)

Anthropology	The Vanished People (1955) Our Living Stone Age (1963) Our Stone Age Mystery (1964)

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