Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900

Roberts, Tony Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2005.

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Author Roberts, Tony
Title Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900
Place of Publication Brisbane
Publisher University of Queensland Press
Publication year 2005-02-1
Series n.s.
Subjects 430101 History - Australian
399901 History and Philosophy of Law and Justice
379902 Aboriginal Studies
420305 Aboriginal Cultural Studies
Abstract/Summary This is chapter 1 of Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900 by Tony Roberts. 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 1870s, 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 Included are maps with original place names, and previously unpublished photographs and illustrations. "Frontier Justice is a very powerful and important book. It appears at a particularly significant time given the intense current debate about Aboriginal history. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the story of the Australian frontier." - Professor Henry Reynolds "A commanding study of race relations in the remote Gulf country. Tony Roberts uncovers compelling evidence of a litany of violence across some forty-odd years of rough borderlands dispossession in an encompassing, powerful and disturbing history." - Professor Raymond Evans
Keyword Tom Lynott; Frank Hann; Garrwa people; Tommy Campbell; Charley Scrutton; Nat Buchanan
Thomas Perry
Northern Territory
Gulf Country
Australian Aborigines
Australian history
Aboriginal studies
frontier history
Nothern Territory
Gulf of Carpentaria
Kimberley
pioneers
Bill Weldon
William Stretton
Yanyuwa people
Additional Notes This is chapter 1 of this title. To buy the book through the UQ Bookshop, click on the link provided and follow the instructions.

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