[xiv], 346 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Forbidden Valley -- Coomery Roy 1819-20 -- The Settlers of 1822 -- Old colonists and new settlers, 1823 -- Exploring the Upper Valleys, 1823-25 -- Upper Hunter Reveille -- The district of Merton: settlers in 1825 -- The Forbes grants: Skellator - Edinglassie - No spinster settlers -- Jocob's mob -- The great venture -- Original settlers of invermein district -- The road to Merton, 1826 -- Trouble in the new country -- Spears against Merton -- Much praise for murder -- Aborigines of the Upper Hunter -- The lost tribes -- Old friends and new neighbours -- Henry Dumaresq and St. Helier's Vale -- Stock buying Mania -- Manorial Merton -- Farewell to Dalswinton -- Saxon sheep and Shepherds -- Beyond the boundaries, 1827-32 -- Birth of a city -- Floods and the family bridge -- The year of the steam engine -- The King's pardon -- Precarious times -- A sowing of thorns
Summary
Two chapters on the Kamilaroi; Baiame; boras; burial customs; weapons and warfare
Analysis
New South Wales. Hunter River region, to 1833
Notes
Maps on endpapers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references: pages [311]-336
Notes
RB copy - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
