Tag: South Australia
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RM Williams: The amazing story of an Australian icon, entrepreneur, poet and bushman…
“It was 110 degrees F in the shade and nobody that I knew would be shooting for fun… … a puff of smoke showed from behind Paddy’s windbreak, followed by the sharp whip-like crack of a high-powered Savage .22 calibre. I dived behind my packs and searched for my only weapon, a small .25 automatic […]
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Secrets of RM Williams Country
Do heroic landscapes, like those found in the far north of South Australia, produce larger-than-life personalities? Standing at the remote bush camp in the Gammon Ranges where RM Williams fashioned his first pair of boots it’s easy to see how this ancient and unforgiving place shaped the life of Australia’s most famous bushman. “We owned […]
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The Story of RM Williams
Spanning the whole span of the 20th Century, the colourful life of Reginald Murray Williams, widely known as simply ‘RM’, would make the perfect script for a rip-roaring action movie. Born in rural South Australia in 1908, RM Williams rose from modest circumstances – what he later called “the clay pit of poverty” – to […]