Beneath Whose Hand

R.M. Williams: bushman, grazier, folk hero, raconteur – in fact, one of the great legends of our time. This is his story.

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 …