Sam Croker

Samuel Burns Croker (20 June 1852 – 20 September 1892) was a stockman and drover in Queensland and the Northern Territory where he was well known as "Greenhide Sam Croker, because of his skill working with greenhide (the untanned hide of an animal).[1][2][3] He often worked alongside Nat Buchanan and, together, they 'pioneered' the Murranji Track in 1886.[4][5]

Croker was killed by Aboriginal stockman Charlie Flannigan on Auvergne Station.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Samuel Burns CROKER, b. 20th June 1852, d. 20th September 1892". Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Greenhide". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  3. ^ Lewis, Darrell (2008). "Croker, Samuel Burns (Sam) (1852 - 1892)". Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography. Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press. pp. 120–122. hdl:10070/492231. ISBN 9780980457810.
  4. ^ Doolan, Jack (20 September 1987). "Murrinji Track, sinister, tough". Sunday Territorian. p. 36.
  5. ^ O'Neill, Sally, "Nathaniel (Nat) Buchanan (1826–1901)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 16 October 2024
  6. ^ Smith, Robyn (11 April 2021). "'Kill or be killed': The real story of Charlie Flannigan, the first man hanged in the NT". NT Independent. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  7. ^ Christophersen, Donald James (2023), A little bit of justice : the story of Charlie Flannigan - the first man to be executed in the Northern Territory of South Australia, Don Christophersen, p. 23, ISBN 978-0-646-87375-6