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His concern about the destruction of the
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impacting his earning ability, he tried to find a publisher. However, no-one was interested in a book "about a cow", so he published it himself. Angus & Robertson took it on after it won the
Australian Literature Society's award.
162:, and christened as Frederick Douglas Davison. His father was Frederick Davison, a printer, publisher, editor, journalist and writer of fiction; and his mother was Amelia, nÊe Watterson. He was their eldest child. He went to
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Davison wrote under several pseudonyms: T Bone; The Roo; Davison, Fred D.; Fred
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Davison began writing full-time during the depression, adopting, at this time, the names Frank Dalby to distinguish himself from his father. He won the
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is "the story of a red heifer ... who learned to value freedom above everything". It was initially published in serial form in 1923â25 in his father's
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