The Aborigines of the Bathurst district (historical sketch). 1965.

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The Aborigines of the Bathurst district (historical sketch). 1965.

Revised and rewritten article published in the Western Times (Bathurst) as a serial from 15/8/62; Chap.1; The coming of the Europeans; Chap.2; Conflicts & the proclamation of martial law; Chap.3; The spread of settlement beyond Bathurst; Chap.4; Missionary efforts - notes on Apsley Mission (1833), work of lay missionaries; Chap.5; The gloomy road to extinction - includes notes on Jacky Cave the last of the Bathurst natives, born 1865, employed as blacktracker; Chap.6; The character of the Aborigines - notes on Mitchells journeys, information on Youranigh who was born at Boree; Windradyne (last headman of Bathurst Aborigines; Chap. 7; Aborigine cemetery Brucedale, and the Brucedale Aborigines; Chap.8; Corroborees - Boree, March 1836 (taken from Mitchell) and Macquarie Plains, 1847 (Colonel Mundys account).

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