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A Wild History : Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney : Monash University Publishing, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781925495003
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Wild HistoryDDC classification:
  • 994.295
LOC classification:
  • DU398.V5L49 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Victoria River Country: Land and People -- Chapter 2: First Contact -- Chapter 3: The Advance Scouts of Settlement -- Chapter 4: The Coming of the Cattle -- Chapter 5: Unquiet Times -- Chapter 6: Jasper Gorge -- Chapter 7: Captain Joe's Bradshaw -- Chapter 8: The Wild Wardaman Warriors -- Chapter 9: The Victoria River Sheep Saga -- Chapter 10: Hard-Riding Individualists -- Chapter 11: The Nest of Reputed Thieves -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In 1883 pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory. They entered a vast tropical land of big rivers, wide plains, and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but also a paradise for the Aboriginal people who had lived there for thousands of years.
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Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Victoria River Country: Land and People -- Chapter 2: First Contact -- Chapter 3: The Advance Scouts of Settlement -- Chapter 4: The Coming of the Cattle -- Chapter 5: Unquiet Times -- Chapter 6: Jasper Gorge -- Chapter 7: Captain Joe's Bradshaw -- Chapter 8: The Wild Wardaman Warriors -- Chapter 9: The Victoria River Sheep Saga -- Chapter 10: Hard-Riding Individualists -- Chapter 11: The Nest of Reputed Thieves -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

In 1883 pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory. They entered a vast tropical land of big rivers, wide plains, and rugged ranges. It was a cattleman's paradise, but also a paradise for the Aboriginal people who had lived there for thousands of years.

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