TY  - BOOK
AU  - Price,David
TI  - Dark tales from the long river: a bloody history of Australia's north-west frontier 
SN  - 9781925816631
U1  - 364.9941/3 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Fremantle, Western Australia
PB  - Fremantle Press
KW  - Foss, C. D. V.
KW  - Crime
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - Murder
KW  - Western Australia
KW  - Violent crimes
KW  - Organized crime
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Treatment of
KW  - Asians
KW  - Pioneer and frontier life
KW  - Gascoyne Region
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Discrimination in law enforcement
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Gascoyne Region (W.A.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The nine true stories of murder, dispossession, violence and misadventure contained in Dark Tales all took place in the Gascoyne Region during the thirty-three-year tenure of Magistrate C.D.V. Foss, which ended in 1915. Accounts from a wide array of contemporaneous newspapers illuminate these events and expose the dark side of our colonial history. They show how policing and the justice system were used not only to track down serial murderers and petty criminals, but also to subjugate Aboriginal peoples and persecute migrants from Asia --and how many were compelled to take the law into their own hands. -- Cover
ER  -