On our Selection: Steele Rudd (engl.) 146 S.

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On Our Selection (1899) is a series of stories written by Australian author Steele Rudd, the pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis, in the late 1890s, featuring the characters Dad and Dave Rudd.

Against the backdrop of the Australian landscape, these are the tales about the farmers of the area on their small selection farms. The hardships, sufferings and the tough lifestyle of those people is elucidated in these pages. The indomitable will of the people who stand in face of extreme adversity is also beautifully captured. Riveting!

Steele Rudd's books were also the basis for the famous "Dad and Dave" radio series of the 1950's and 1960's in Australia.

From Wikipedia: In Australian history, a selection was a "free selection before survey" of crown land under legislation introduced in the 1860s, similar to the United States Homestead Act. Selectors often came into conflict with squatters, who already occupied the land and often managed to circumvent the law.

The Bulletin magazine published the illustrated collection comprising 26 stories in 1899 as On Our Selection. Within four years 20,000 copies had been printed. It afterwards appeared in numerous low priced editions and by 1940 the number of copies sold had reached 250,000.

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