TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garden,Donald S.
TI  - Northam, an Avon Valley history
SN  - 0195542045 :
AV  - DU380.N67 G37 1979
U1  - 994/.1/2 
PY  - 1979///
CY  - Melbourne
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Western Australia. Northam region, ca.1830-1979
KW  - precis
KW  - Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
KW  - aiatsiss
KW  - Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
KW  - Avon River Valley (W.A.)
KW  - History
KW  - Northam Region (W.A.)
KW  - Northam region (W.A.)
KW  - Northam (SW WA SH50-14)
KW  - aiatsisp
KW  - Northam district, Western Australia
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [256]-260; Over the hills: Settlement to 1860 -- Sweat, fire and water: Life on the land to 1860 -- A state of war: The Aborigines -- A spirited village: The town-sites to 1879 -- A tenuous existence: Farming to 1880 -- Full steam ahead: Railways and gold to 1892 -- Golden grain, railways yards and water pipes to 1905 -- Politics in Northerm 1890-1919 -- Horse teams, Charlie Chaplin and heroes 1905-1925 -- Boiled wheat and rabbits 1925-1950 -- Myxomatosis, supermarkets and white swans: post-war -- Appendix: Householders in Northam, September 1879
N2  - Includes chapter outlining the conquest of the Aborigines in the area
ER  -