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Author Marr, David, author.

Title Killing for country : a family story / David Marr
Published Collingwood VIC : Black Inc., [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (464 pages)
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note -- Mr Jones -- 1. Cross-Breeding -- 2. Lords of the Soil -- 3. Race and Faith -- 4. Breakout -- 5. Botany Bay Tactics -- 6. Deaths and Arrangements -- 7. The Creeks -- 8. His Gimlet Eye -- 9. Moving North -- Edmund B. Uhr -- 10. Valley of the Shadow -- 11. Killers of Mr Uhr -- 12. Troublesome Bush Lawyer -- 13. My Rogues -- 14. To the Island -- 15. Retribution Alone -- 16. Queensland -- Reg & D'arcy -- 17. Pro Christo et Patria -- 18. Valley of Lagoons -- 19. At Last a Perch -- 20. Troublemaker in a Shanty Town
21. No Better Man -- 22. Blaze of Glory -- 23. The Reaper -- 24. D'arcy in His Prime -- 25. The Last Chapter -- Afterword: Family Business -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 10, 2023)
Subject Queensland Native Police Force -- History
Police brutality -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History -- 19th century
Land settlement -- Australia -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- 19th century
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- 19th century
SUBJECT Australia -- Colonization -- History
Australia -- History -- 1788-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593
Australia -- Race relations -- 19th century
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781743823309
1743823304