Acknowledgements – Walker Brothers Prospecting Expedition 1913
We are grateful to Willis Crocker (1909–94) who first pointed us to the printed Walker map, then uncatalogued at the National Library of Australia. We have appreciated the ready access to the resources of the National Library of Australia, especially the Map Room, and, in later years, Trove.
Archivist Ros Fraser drew our attention to relevant files at Australian Archives (now National Archives of Australia), Canberra.
We received friendly assistance at times from others who have also ventured off the beaten track in central Australia, notably David Hewitt, Dick Kimber, David Gibson, Mary Laughren, Robert Graham, and the late Adrian Winwood-Smith.
We received helpful professional advice from David Pearson, Ian Williams, A.N. Trendall, and P.E. Playford.
For assistance with our two trips investigating parts of the Walker Bros. route, we are grateful to many people:
In 1993: Peter Bartlett, the Ngurra Walytja outstations organisation, Jeff Hulcombe, and Pintupi people at Walungurru (Kintore).
In 1995: David Brooks and Jan Turner of Ngaanyatjarra Council, and Ngaanyatjarra and Pintupi people from Warburton, Punmu, and Kiwirrkura, assisted by a grant from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Mark Chambers has generously provided obscure information, notably the crucial 1975 obituary of Andy Everett he found and sent us in February 1996.
Peter Bridge, OAM, kindly shared information and photographs from Andy Everett’s widow.
In the period 1995–98 Arthur Crofts’ son Bob and daughter Lily kindly provided information about their father, supplemented around 2016 by Kevin Crofts, and Diana Summers.
In 2018 Craig Heaton kindly shared information on the family history help from Rebecca Green, and Stuart Traynor.
Peter Bridge and Hesperian Press have supported the project for almost thirty years, and we are grateful for their patience and encouragement to publish this volume.