1. It was first settled by miners and stockmen in the early 1860s.

2. Synonyms for buckaroos include cowhands, cowmen, cowpunchers, cowboys, cowpokes, waddies, wranglers, Buckeroos, stockmen and ranchers

3. Stockmen on one of the Anguses' family properties.(Supplied: Josie Angus ) An infamously challenging industry

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5. Bullwhips A bullwhip is the preferred whip by stockmen and whipcrackers in the US and UK, but in Australia is very rarely used

6. Backwoodsmen:Stockmen and Hunters along a BIg Thicket Valley presents a detailed social history of the back-country stockmen, hunters, and woodsmen of the Neches River in southeastern Texas