Dark tales from the long river : a bloody history of Australia's north-west frontier / David Price.

By: Price, David [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 208 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925816631Subject(s): Foss, C. D. V. (Charles Denroache Vaughan), 1842?-1929 | Crime -- Australia -- History | Murder -- Western Australia -- History | Violent crimes -- Western Australia -- History | Organized crime -- Australia -- History | Aboriginal Australians -- Colonization | Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment of | Asians -- Western Australia -- History | Pioneer and frontier life -- Western Australia -- Gascoyne Region | Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Western Australia -- History | Discrimination in law enforcement -- Western Australia -- History | Western Australia -- Race relations | Western Australia -- History | Gascoyne Region (W.A.) -- History | Gascoyne Region (W.A.) -- Race relationsDDC classification: 364.9941/3 Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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