DREAMTIME COWBOY 🎧 Chapter 1 – Part 3:

Now a teenager, Francis escapes school and begins life as a drover and cowboy — living the fantasy of the comic book heroes he once adored. But the cost of survival is silence. He hides his Aboriginal identity, even as he starts a family and works across remote cattle stations. This section captures both the allure and the loneliness of the saddle, the beginning of a life lived between two worlds — and introduces the deep inner conflict that will shape the man to come.

🎧 Endnote If you’ve enjoyed this first glimpseinto Dreamtime Cowboy, you can help me continue editing and proofreading the full story — both for print and this podcast, and eventually for the audiobook to come.

This project was born from hundreds of recorded interviews, painstakingly transcribed and written into prose by award-winning Editor-in-Chief Adrian Beckingham as a true labour of love.

Every contribution helps bring the extraordinary life of Francis Firebrace, Aboriginal elder and storyteller, to completion and share it with the world. Francis is now aged 89 years and with the onset of dementia, cannot remember many of the events which he spoke of during the initial interviews.

Support the timely completion of this journey by making a financial donation here:

👉 ⁠www.ko-fi.com/adrianbeckingham⁠

Thank you for walking this path — keeping the fire of story alive.