A nest of hornets : the massacre of the Fraser family at Hornet Bank Station, Central Queensland, 1857, and related events

Type

Book

Authors

Reid, Gordon

ISBN 10

0195543580

ISBN 13

9780195543582

LCCN

DU 125 .J55

DDC

364.1

Tags

Jiman (Australian people), History, Fraser Family, Hornet Bank Station, Queensland, First Nations Australians

Abstract

In October 1857, Aborigines attacked a sleeping homestead on the Dawson River, Queensland, and killed all the inhabitants except a young boy who was knocked unconscious and left for dead. After the raiders had gone, he escaped and raised the alarm. The subsequent white retribution, headed by William Fraser, the eldest son who had been away at the time, led to the decimation and dispersal of the Jiman people and some of their allies. As many as 300 may have dies in retaliation for the deaths of eleven whites at Hornet Bank station. A Nest of Hornets is the first definitive account of the massacre - one of the worst incidents in Aboriginal-European relations in Australian history - and attempts to separate fact from fiction in a story which has become a Queensland legend.

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Content
1. First Contact -- 2. White Settlers -- 3. Frontier law and order -- 4. Black justice -- 5. Days of anger -- 6. Fear and revenge -- 7. Guerrilla warfare -- 8. Towards another disaster -- 9. The victors -- 10. The vanquished -- 11. Hornet Bank in history.

Biblio Notes

Includes biographical references (pages 191-199).
Item donated by Graham Price.
Categorized by publisher, then author, then date.

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