When fortune smiled : and other tales of the goldfields / by John Drayton ; prepared by Peter J Bridge, Angela Teague and Rina Ashcroft
- Bib ID:
- 6446164
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Drayton, John, 1856 or 8-1940, author
- Description:
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- Victoria Park, Western Australia : Hesperian Press, 2014
- ©2014
- xii, 124 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 30 cm
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9780859055635 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Anecdotes include accounts of violent encounters between Aboriginal people and prospectors; murders; p.7-8 revenge killing of 36 Aborigines for murder of Matt Ellis near Mt Margaret; p. 18 : discovery of gold deposit by Aboriginal servant boy of Jack Dunn; p. 35-36: massacre of Aboriginal group at Mount Catherine; p. 71-73 revenge killing of Aboriginal group for horse killing near Cork Tree Flat by Aboriginal boy Mulaga and Norwegian prospector; p. 107 : account of cannibalism near Nannine; p. 111: establishment of Moola Bulla station for supply of beef to Aboriginal people in the Kimberley to prevent livestock killing.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Gold mines and mining -- Western Australia -- Anecdotes
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Cannibalism
- Animals - Livestock - Stealing and killing
- Mining industry - Gold
- Western Australia -- History -- 1851-1901
- Western Australia -- History -- 1901-1945
- Coolgardie (SE WA Goldfields SH51-09)
- Mount Catherine (SE WA SH51-06)
- Moola Bulla (WA East Kimberley SE52-09)
- Australian
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- Copyright:
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