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 || R.M. Williams || [] || [] Richard Simplain, Australian Legends || [] || Chronological reference to people and experiences that influenced the person explaining how they influenced them. || * Aboriginals taught R.M at 18 how to survive off the land ||  ||  * He persued his dream of becoming a millionare Well known persons working at the same time. || * The goverment sayed they needed his property cattle king, Sir Sidney Kidman || Why do their life is regarded as significant and why they are admirable. || R.M. WILLIAMS - A MAN WHO HAD TRIED
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 * **Orientation: ** Establishes the name of the person, when and where they were born, their early family life and made them a famous person. || * Reginald Murray Williams
 * Born 1908 at Belalie North near the flinders ranges 200 kilometres north Aselaide
 * Father Joseph was a pioneer settler
 * Father worked and trained horses
 * R.M. remembers when his dad was in his workshop with horseshoes
 * Hard work living in the bush
 * R.M.'s mother cooked washed and iorned with no running water or electricity
 * In 1932 while R.M. Williams camped in the remote Gammon ranges in the nothern region of South Australia he made his first pair of riding boots
 * He sold a handmade saddle to another legend cattle king Sir Sydney Kidman for 5 pounds was the begging of a growing business
 * Bushmen all over Australia sent cash with order for R.M.'s elastic sided boots shirts, saddlecloths, moleskins, oilskins, riding gear and other products. ||
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 * ^  || * He was 10 when his family moved to Adelaide
 * They only moved so he and his sisters could go to school there
 * He did not like school
 * Left school when he was 13
 * He packed a swag and left for the land he loved
 * He was a camel driver when he was 18
 * He spent 3 years treekking through the aussie desert
 * He lived with aborigines
 * They taught him how to live in the conditions
 * He started making boots and clothing for fellow stockmen in 1932
 * His business and legacy is still going
 * The shop has been producing quailty boots and clothing for over 76 years
 * From 16 r.m had more jobs than stichtes in his boots they include: Camel boy, drover, Stockman, cattleman, well digger, bookmaker, miner, businessman, historian,author and leather worker and many more
 * He sold his first pair of ridding boots for 20 shillings
 * He started his buisness in a woodshed at the back of his fathers house at 5 percy street Prospect ||
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 * ^  || * He was born on may 24 1908 at Belalie north
 * HIs childhood was difficult but went fast
 * He learnt how to handle hrses at a young age on his dads propity
 * He left school at 14
 * He was a good reader
 * He liked the works of Tolstoy
 * He learnt his horse and cattle skills from the people of lived in isolated cattle stations north of Nullarbor
 * Born in 1908
 * raised on a farm in mid north of south Australia
 * Learnt bush skills while working in remote areas
 * lime burner, gold digger and camel boy for missionary William Wade
 * Explored central Australia including Gibson Desert and the Musgrave, Mann, Tompkinson and Petermann Ranges. ||
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 * He learned to be a drover from stockmen
 * He learned how to collect bird specimens which he sent to the South Australian Museum
 * He met Dollar Mick on his travels
 * Dollar taught R.M how to make boots and pack saddles from leather
 * Dollar helped R.M set up a little leather bussiness where he repaired saddlebags, spurs, bridles and a new style of boats as R.M needed money to help his son Ian who had an eye disease ||
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 * ^  || * He took any job that was avaliable when he left home
 * one of his first jobs was learning to burn lime for construction of a church in Victoria
 * He helped establish a mission for aboriginies on the goldfields of western australia as another job
 * He learnt alot from the aboriginals
 * They taught him most in their bushcraft, cutting mulga, burning limestone and finding water and hunting animals
 * Later in life he said that 'The mastery of these Aborigines over their environment has been the inspiration of my life'.
 * He learnt how to handle camels from Afghan Cameleers.
 * He travelled the desert between western australia and oodnadatta with missionary William (Bill) Wade to count the number of aboriginals in the area
 * After he went dingo-scalping.
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 * ^  || * learnt leatherworking skills from horseman Dollar Mick
 * He learnt to make bridles, saddles and ridding boots
 * IN 1932 son had eye disease
 * needed hospital treatment
 * Expensive so he needed money
 * Went back to Adelaide to parents
 * he started selling saddlesto Sir Sydney Kidman
 * Kidman was a rich Pastoralist
 * He amde a small factory
 * The factory was in his fathers back shed in Adelaide
 * The buisness rapidly exspanded
 * He was having financial proplems
 * So He became involved with the successful goldmine
 * Nobles Nob goldmine near Tennant Creek Northen Territory ||
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Education: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Where and when they studied. Well ordered, and detailed description on when and where the person studied. || * Country life changed when he was 10
 * His family move to Adelaide so he and his 2 sisters could attend school
 * He hated moving
 * He hated school
 * He wanted to go back to the bush
 * At 15 he packed his swag and left for the bush
 * He travelled north first
 * His first job was heavy metal work build in a stone water tan in the desert
 * At night around the campfire he taught himself to read
 * Books opened doors to a world of knowledge and adventure for him
 * At 18 he was a camel driver
 * He worked for a missionary
 * He spent 3 years trekking over thousands of kilometers of desert
 * There were no roads, no tracks, no maps
 * On the way they lived with aboriginals
 * The Aboriginals taught them how to sur vive in the bush
 * At one camp a bushman Reg Brown taught him to plait using one strand of kangaroo leather
 * He tried hard to practise plaiting and bush knots
 * He practised until he was perfect ||
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 * ^  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> * He went to Belalie North school ||
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 * ^  || * He was 10 when his family moved to Adelaide
 * They moved so the children could attend a proper school
 * He hated school
 * He was 13 when he returned to the bush this time alone ||
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 * He Established R.M. Williams Country wear in 1932
 * Established Hoofs and Horns national magazine in 1946
 * He published several books, including Beneath Whose Hands in 1984 and I once met a man in 1989 * Opened the R.M. William's Outback Heritage Museum in Adelaide in 1999
 * HE won the CMG (Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George)
 * He won the Ao ( Officer of the order of Australia) ||
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 * ^  || * He became the founder of the Australian Roughriders Association
 * He helped form the Equestrian Federation of Australia in 1951
 * He also helped form the Stockman's Hall of Fame In Longreach in 1988
 * HE became the editor of Hoofs and Horns magazine in the early 1950's ||
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 * ^  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> * His boots have become more famous than himself which is how he liked it
 * He wrote books about his extraordinary life
 * He published poetry
 * He was involved with the making of the Stockmen's Hall of Fame in Longreache, Queensland in 1988
 * He was most proud of this
 * He thought of it as a tribute to all people who lived on the land ||
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 * They needed the land
 * He left to a property he owned in Queensland
 * He vowed never to return to south Australia ||
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 * ^  || * During the depression their was a lack of work so he returned to Adelaide
 * He met Thelma Cummins there
 * They got married then returned to the bush living off the land in the Flinders Ranges
 * His marrige fell apart in the 1950's
 * After this he bought 55 acres of land at the rear of Yatala Labour Prison in South Australia
 * He built a home on the land and planted lots of roses in vineyards
 * He ran rodeo's on the floodplain of dryycreek
 * He left south Australia swearing never to return due to former Premier of South Australia Sir THomas Playford
 * He remarried in 1955 and had 4 children
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I stared at the brown leather boot in my hand And applied elbow grease for a shine When there right before me an image appeared And I can't say the face it was mine. But yes that old hat, which you wore with great pride, And the short grey moustache 'neath your nose; Revealed straight away you were Aussie and proud And most bush folk admired you God knows.

We'll miss you old mate, as you were a proud son For you taught us the value of pride. Your Epitaph reads, as you wanted it to R.M Williams ... A Man Who Had Tried.

In fact it was you who designed these old boots That have lasted me all through these years And news of your passing on November fifth, Was a blow, which brought home a few tears. From swagman to millionaire was your claim And your trade mark the boots you designed. You strode for perfection and here is the proof As no better a boot could you find.

We'll miss you old mate, as you were a proud son For you taught us the value of pride. Your Epitaph reads, as you wanted it to R.M Williams ... A Man Who Had Tried.

Yes that was your legacy to all of us And we've taken your wise ways to heart. You showed us how hard work it has its rewards If one has the desire from the start. You loved the bush ballads and rhyming bush verse, You yourself played the role of bush bard. And surely old friend you will visit again If I polish these boots really hard.

We'll miss you old mate, as you were a proud son For you taught us the value of pride. Your Epitaph reads, as you wanted it to R.M Williams ... A Man Who Had Tried. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Establishes when and where the person died and the effect their work and values had on people. || * He died peacefully [] []
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 * ^  || * He is the leading name in the Aussies bush outfitting business
 * He earns about 50 million dollars a year
 * The company has grown to mare than 100 stores across Australia and New Zealand
 * He also has overseas stores in London and New York
 * His boots led him to Australians and people from overseas to nominate the company as ' the best boot-makers in the world'
 * In 2000 he invested 2.5 million dollars in an addition to the salisbury factory
 * The company is passionate about the australian bush heritage
 * His outback magazine has on of the highest subscription rates in the country
 * HIs products are useful and parctical ||
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 * ^  || * He is and Australian Bush man
 * Famous for creating a style of bushwear
 * He is reconised worldwide
 * Unique Australian
 * Had many adventures in Australias tough outback
 * He rose from swagman to millionaire
 * He lived a life of legends are made of
 * will be remembered
 * He contributed to Australias unique identity ||
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 * He died at his house near Toowoomba
 * He died at the age 95
 * He died surronded by family friends ||
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 * ^  || * He played a major role in making the stockmans hall of fame
 * The Bicentennial National Trail was one of his many inspirations
 * His autobiography says he is a determined, thoughtful, "can do" man ||
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 * ^  || * He was riding horses into his nineties
 * He is known as an iconic figure
 * He died peacefully in his modest home in Queensland
 * He died on the 4th of November 2003
 * He was 95 when he died ||
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