In the late 1800s, the northwest of Tasmania was a wild place, where only the wildest of people survived. One such man was T.B. Margetts.
Born in Leicestershire but raised in Tasmania, he was a pioneer, adventurer, farmer and horseman. He was stubborn as they come, a bit hot-headed and never lost a battle.
An encounter with a bushranger in his youth also made him so security-conscious it was bordering on the paranoid, and he always wore a money belt of gold sovereigns and slept with a loaded revolver under his pillow as a result.
Meet this “ordinary” man as he battles the bush, threatens a fist fight outside a courthouse, waves a gun at his would-be son-in-law and travels the world three times over.
01.58 Wild northwest
05.00 T.B’s early days
09.51 Flowerdale
11.22 Courthouse fracas
15.00 Gentleman farmer and world traveller
18.32 Father of the bride
22.42 T.B’s final chapter
Credits:
Theme music: ‘Wellerman Epic Shanty’ by EBunny via Jamendo
Sound effects: Pixabay
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