Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 142
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A neighbour about 15 miles away offered me 250 bullocks & took two 1/2 caste Abos & a blue cattle dog & had a holiday, only having to do my own work. We took the mob over Blackmans Gap in the Many Peak Range.
No road there in those days, but a bridle track up a gully & down a spur on our side of the range, an awkward job, without any trouble. In my time have bought many mobs of steers that had been worked by white men & they had to be re-educated, being taught to walk & not to trot. You can't fatten bullocks at a trot. They may look all right but will not weigh well, nor go first quality. On one occasion we had a small mob of fats to be delivered at the meat works, the same day, about the same number belonging to a neighbour. About 30 miles from Gladstone my 1/2 caste drover heard whips cracking. The other driver wanted to box the mobs but my drover pulled off the road & let the driver go ahead. Several who saw the two mobs