Lindley's Last Ride
Thursday 23 July 2:00pm | $20 GA
This is the story of one families enduring reputation for perseverance and sheer bloody resilience set against the history of alpine grazing in the northern Snowy Mountains.
Lindley’s Last Ride is a compelling documentary that chronicles the enduring legacy of the Lindley family, whose resilience and dedication have kept the tradition of alpine cattle droving alive in the northern Snowy Mountains of New South Wales.
The Lindleys are among a handful of Australian families still droving their cattle to the high plains of the NSW Snowy Mountains each December to fatten on the sweet native herbage over summer. Their heritage and annual pilgrimage from their home in Gundagai with cattle is now the subject of a documentary, Lindley's Last Ride.
Running time approx 51 minutes
DVDs and Can Assist Raffle tickets will be sold in the foyer before and after the movie screening.
Kosciusko State Park was declared a national park in 1967 with grazing banned in 1969 and the last snow leases terminated three years later, bringing to an end 135 years of seasonal grazing in the Snowy Mountains.
The Lindleys retain one of the few freehold grazing properties within the park’s boundaries.
Their freehold is located along what was once a main route for stockmen and prospectors from the NSW South West Slopes and Riverina to access the grazing areas of the Long, Cooleman and Currango Plains or the Kiandra gold fields.
Brothers John and Bob Lindley have been taking cattle annually to the family’s high country freehold for decades.
