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505 0 a| The frontier on the long river -- Prologue: player of the game -- Death and the 'dusky Venus' -- The lonesome death of Thackabiddy -- A bush beating -- The Shark Bay stand-off -- The Yankee Town murder -- Affray at Monkey's Well -- In the shadow of the Cleopatra's Pearl -- Spargo the killer -- How Topsy died -- Epilogue: the 'Grand Old Man of the Gascoyne'.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a wide array of contemporaneous accounts of life in the Gascoyne, these sometimes shocking, sometimes disturbing true crime stories depict an era when Australia's laws served to maintain order rather than to secure justice. Dark Tales from the Long River offers a window into an evolving history of Western Australia that is still struggling into the light.;

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Dark tales from the Long River a bloody history of Australia's north-west frontier / David Price.

Author/creator	Price, David
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	North Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Press, 2021.
Description	208 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Foss, C. D. V. (Charles Denroache Vaughan), 1842?-1929. Organized crime--Australia. --History. Aboriginal Australians--Colonization. Crime--Australia. --History. Murder--Australia. --Western Australia. --History. Violent crimes--Australia. --Western Australia. --History. Aboriginal Australians--Treatment. Asians--Australia. --Western Australia. --History. Frontier and pioneer life--Western Australia. --Gascoyne Region. Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Australia. --Western Australia. --History. Discrimination in law enforcement--Australia. --Western Australia. --History. Western Australia--Race relations. Western Australia--History. Gascoyne Region (W.A.)--History. Gascoyne Region (W.A.)--Race relations.

Contents	The frontier on the long river -- Prologue: player of the game -- Death and the 'dusky Venus' -- The lonesome death of Thackabiddy -- A bush beating -- The Shark Bay stand-off -- The Yankee Town murder -- Affray at Monkey's Well -- In the shadow of the Cleopatra's Pearl -- Spargo the killer -- How Topsy died -- Epilogue: the 'Grand Old Man of the Gascoyne'.
Abstract	From searches for serial killers and missing persons to the persecution of migrants and Aboriginal people, David Price takes us back to a time when the line between lawmakers and criminals was lightly drawn. Based on a wide array of contemporaneous accounts of life in the Gascoyne, these sometimes shocking, sometimes disturbing true crime stories depict an era when Australia's laws served to maintain order rather than to secure justice. Dark Tales from the Long River offers a window into an evolving history of Western Australia that is still struggling into the light.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-201) and index (pages 203-208).
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2020446860
ISBN	9781925816631 (paperback)
ISBN	192581663X (paperback)
ISBN	(ebook)

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