Man Tracks

{{Short description|Book by Ion Idriess}}

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| publisher = Angus and Robertson

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Man Tracks, with the mounted police in the Australian Wilds is a 1935 book by Australian author Ion Idriess about the mounted police in north west Western Australia.[http://www.idriess.info/#!titles3/cwy8 Book information] at Idriess fan siteREAL LIFE ROMANCE

H K S. The North - China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette (1870-1941) [Shanghai] 14 Aug 1935: 284.

It includes profiles on Aboriginal outlaws and leaders such as Joe Flick, Nemarluk and Minmara; the murder of Traynor and Fagan off Woodah Island; the spearing of Constable McColl; the ambushing of Hemming's patrol; the killing of the Japanese of the luggers' Ouida, The Myrtle, The Olga and the Raff; the spearing of Stephens and Cobb.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104479407 |title=MAN TRACKS. |newspaper=The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 April 1935 |accessdate=15 April 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150271960 |title=WITH THE TRACKERS. |newspaper=The Northern Herald |volume=90 |issue=1152 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=11 May 1935 |accessdate=17 April 2016 |page=33 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Idriess later wrote a follow-up, Nemarluk: King of the Wilds (1941).

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