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Author Black, Maggie, 1945- author

Title Up came a squatter : Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839-1880 / Maggie Black
Published Sydney : NewSouth Publishing / State Library of Victoria, 2016
Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2016

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Description x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.̀A run unequalled in the colony' -- 2.̀Quietly slaughtered in unknown numbers' -- 3.̀I sent for a chain to measure the distance' -- 4.̀Above all, I am anxious for men' -- 5.̀I thought it best to build a stone house' -- 6.A day we hope never to see the like of again' -- 7.̀Your uncle is going to be married, as usual' -- 8.̀To stem the wild torrent of Democracy' -- 9.̀We are full of corruption from head to foot' -- 10.All efforts to reach agreement have quite failed' -- 11.̀I dread some fatal catastrophe' -- 12.̀The crowning folly of my life'
Summary Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria - a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was also a correspondent extraordinaire, and his letters to family, fellow pastoralists, colonial officials, and his chief UK business partner, Thomas Steuart Gladstone (and first cousin of the British prime minister), offer a unique insight into the time. Black's letters and journals, now held at the State Library of Victoria, are the inspiration for this revelatory book written by his great-granddaughter. Battles with local Aboriginal people, other settlers, Commissioners of Crown Lands and bush-fires, along with droughts, family feuds, multiple trips back to Scotland to find a wife and Black's rise to gentrified excess are all vividly brought to life
Analysis Australian
Kirrae people
Notes "Published in association with State Library Victoria"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Black, Niel, 1804-1880.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Victoria.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Victoria.
Scots -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography.
Scots -- Australia -- Victoria.
Sheep farming -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Squatter settlements -- Australia -- Victoria.
Squatters -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography.
Squatters -- Australia -- Victoria.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Colonization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005562
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Colonization. 1
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Colonization.1
Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008859
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Blainey, Geoffrey, 1930- author of introduction, etc
State Library of Victoria.
LC no. 2017415615
ISBN 1742235069 (paperback)
9781742235066 (paperback)