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Frontier lands and pioneer legends : how pastoralists gained Karuwali land
- Title
- Frontier lands and pioneer legends : how pastoralists gained Karuwali land / Pamela Lukin Watson.
- Author
- Watson, Pamela Lukin.
- Publication
- St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | DU125.K29 W37 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 136 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Frontier Lands and Pioneer Legends presents reports from the frontier, the memoirs of five pioneering families who in the 1860s 'opened up' part of the Channel Country in southwest Queensland, an area of spinifex and sandhill country the size of Belgium." "The writers of these memoirs had much in common: the three male writers were contemporaries; two families were blood relatives; each owned sequentially one or more of the properties owned by other members of the five. And yet a careful reading of these first-hand accounts of life on the pastoral frontier reveal startling differences in how the pioneering experience is portrayed." "Which version is the more valid? Here is Australia's remembered past at its most accessible: intriguing characters, both white and black, and a topical issue enlivened by a fresh approach."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Frontier lands & pioneer legends
- Subject
- Durack family
- Costello family
- Duncan family
- Karuwali (Australian people) > Land tenure
- Karuwali (Australian people) > History
- Frontier and pioneer life > Australia > Queensland
- Pioneers > Australia > Queensland > Biography
- Ranchers > Australia > Queensland > Biography
- Land tenure > Australia > Queensland
- Garuwali / Karuwali language (L35) (Qld SG54-07)
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Race relations
- Race relations - Violent
- Social organisation
- Culture - Relationship to land
- Religion
- Ceremonies - Secret / sacred
- Subsistence and economy
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Karuwali (Australian people)
- Land tenure
- Pioneers
- Ranchers
- Landnahme
- Tierzüchter
- Kolonisten
- Herinneringen
- Canterbury map area (Qld Far West SG54-07)
- Queensland
- Australien
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-132) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: constructing the Pioneer Legend -- pt. I. The pastoral memoirs. 2. Pioneering lives: John Costello, Robert Collins and Oscar de Satge. 3. Pioneering lives: Mary Durack and Alice Duncan-Kemp. 4. Karuwali lives: individuals and groups. 5. Attitudes to land and reactions to its loss -- pt. II. Contesting the legend: other sources and debates. 6. The Karuwali and their neighbours in nineteenth-century records. 7. The decimation of the Karuwali. 8. Voices of protest. 9. Towards a shared history.
- ISBN
- 1864484950
- 9781864484953
- LCCN
- 98201170
- OCLC
- ocm38903736
- 38903736
- SCSB-541588
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library