Bibliograph

Dark tales from the long river, a bloody history of Australia's north-west frontier, David Price

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Dark tales from the long river, a bloody history of Australia's north-west frontier, David Price

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dark tales from the long river

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

David Price

Sub title

a bloody history of Australia's north-west frontier

Summary

The nine true stories of murder, dispossession, violence and misadventure contained in Dark Tales all took place in the Gascoyne Region during the thirty-three-year tenure of Magistrate C.D.V. Foss, which ended in 1915. Accounts from a wide array of contemporaneous newspapers illuminate these events and expose the dark side of our colonial history. They show how policing and the justice system were used not only to track down serial murderers and petty criminals, but also to subjugate Aboriginal peoples and persecute migrants from Asia, and how many were compelled to take the law into their own hands

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