Frontier justice : a history of the Gulf country to 1900

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Frontier justice : a history of the Gulf country to 1900

Title remainder

a history of the Gulf country to 1900

Statement of responsibility

Tony Roberts

Title variation

History of the Gulf country to 1900

Creator

• trueRoberts, Tony, 1945-

Author

• trueRoberts, Tony, 1945-

Subject

• trueAboriginal Australians -- Relations with whites -- Northern Territory -- 19th century
• trueAustralia -- History -- 1851-1901
• trueAustralia -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
• Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.) -- History -- 19th century
• Carpentaria, Gulf of, Region (N.T. and Qld.) -- History -- 19th century
• trueFrontier and pioneer life
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia | Gulf of Carpentaria Region (N.T.)
• trueFrontier and pioneer life -- History
• trueFrontier and pioneer life -- Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Northern Territory | Carpentaria, Gulf of, Region
• Frontier and pioneer life -- Northern Territory | Gulf of Carpentaria Region
• trueGulf of Carpentaria Region, Northern Territory -- History
• trueIndigenous Australians
• trueIndigenous Australians -- Relations with whites
• trueIndigenous Australians -- Relations with whites -- Northern Territory -- 19th century
• trueInterethnic conflict
• Aboriginal Australians -- Australia | Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century
• trueInterethnic conflict -- Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century
• trueInterethnic relations
• trueLand settlement
• trueLand settlement -- History
• trueLand settlement -- Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century
• Law enforcement -- Australia | Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century
• Law enforcement -- Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century
• trueNorthern Territory, Australia -- History -- 19th century
• truePioneers
• truePioneers -- History
• truePioneers -- Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century
• trueRace relations
• Race relations -- History
• trueRace relations -- Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century
• trueInterethnic conflict -- History
• Aboriginal Australians -- Northern Territory -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"A challenging and illuminating history, 'Frontier justice' brings a fresh perspective to the Northern Territory's remarkable frontier era. For the newcomer, the Gulf country - from the Queensland border to the overland telegraph line, and from the Barkly Tableland to the Roper River - was a harsh and in places impassable wilderness. To explorers like Leichhardt, it promised discovery, and to bold adventurers like the overlanders and pastoralists, a new start. For prospectors in their hundreds, it was a gateway to the riches of the Kimberley goldfields. To the 2,500 Aboriginal inhabitants, it was their physical and spiritual home. From the 18702, with the opening of the Coast Track, cattlemen eager to lay claim to vast tracts of station land brought cattle in massive numbers and destruction to precious lagoons and fragile terrain. Black and white conflict escalated into unfettered violence and retaliation that would extend into the next century, displacing, and in some areas destroying, the original inhabitants. The vivid characters who people this meticulously researched and compelling history are indelibly etched from diaries and letters, archival records and eyewitness accounts. Included are maps with original place names, and previously unpublished photographs and illustrations." -- book cover

Award

NSW Premier's History Awards, John and Patricia Ward History Prize, 2005.

Cataloging source

ANL

Index

index present

Intended audience

• Tertiary/Undergraduate
• General

LC call number

DU398.C37

LC item number

R62 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography