Feature Article
Robert Joel (Joe) Cooper (1860–1936)
Robert Joel (Joe) Cooper (1860-1936), buffalo hunter, was born on 29 February 1860 at Fairview, near Riverton, South Australia, son of George Cooper, farmer, and his wife Harriett, née Peverett. Sometime between 1878 and 1881, with a brother George Henry (Harry), he overlanded horses to the Northern Territory and for several years engaged in timber-getting and buffalo shooting on the Cobourg Peninsula and adjacent areas.