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Richard Keam Richard Keam i(A53827 works by) (a.k.a. Rick Keam)
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1 y separately published work icon Keilor to Footscray: Mr Solomon’s Maribyrnong Richard Keam , North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2020 19529561 2020 single work non-fiction

'In 1835 the name ‘Merriburnong’ was given to a sheep run imposed upon the traditional land of the Marin balug, or salt-water-river people. Before a punt was installed near the junction of the Saltwater River with the Yarra at Footscray, a circuitous track from Melbourne to Williams Town and Geelong crossed the river at ‘Solomon’s Ford’. But where exactly was it, and who was Solomon?

'Rick Keam has sought answers by walking the riverbank and re-examining contemporary documents and historic photos. His fresh account of the Solomon era is placed in a wider context, from Charles Grimes’ 1803 exploration, through the degradation of the river as an urban-industrial drain, to its renaming and rehabilitation as today’s Maribyrnong.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)
1 Fisherman Cast Descriptive Pearls with His Flies Richard Keam , 2005 single work obituary (for David Scholes )
— Appears in: The Age , 15 July 2005; (p. 13)
1 1 y separately published work icon On the One String : Songs from the Verse of Shaw Neilson Richard Keam , Fitzroy : Sidetrack , 1985 Z819260 1985 single work
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