There is little surviving biographical information available on Joseph Breaden. He was married to Johanna Getrude Breaden and was a committed resident of Central Australia. He was Bob Buck's uncle and brother to Allan. His year of birth is unknown. Yet Joe, as he was known, features in a number of memoirs written by Central Australians and others who travelled through the area. He is generally remembered as a fine and gallant bushman. David Carnegie, who met Breaden during an expedition in the 1890s writes: ‘A fine specimen of Greater Britain was Joe Breaden, weighing fifteen stone and standing over six feet, strong and hard, about thirty-five years of age, though, like most back-blockers, prematurely grey, with the keen eye of the hunter or bushman. His father had been through the Maori War, and then settled in South Australia; Breaden was born and bred in the bush, and had lived his life away up in Central Australia hundreds of miles from a civilised town. And yet a finer gentleman in the true sense of the word I have never met. Such men as he make the backbone of the country, and of them Australia may well be proud’ (Carnegie, 92) Skipper Partridge, described Joe Breaden thus: ‘Mr Breaden is one of the veterans of the Inland. Although he only settled on Todmodern about ’97 he has been here for many years. He is very quiet and reserved’ (Partridge in Grant,---) while R. Bruce Plowman called him ‘one of the finest examples of what a bushman can be at his best’ (Plowman, ---) SEE David W. Carnegie, Spinifex and Sand: Five Years Pioneering and Exploration in West Australia (1898), Kessinger Publishing, MT, 2004 Arch Grant, Camel, Train and Aeroplane: The Story of Skipper Partridge, Rigby, Adelaide, 1981 R. B. Plowman, Camel Pads, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1933