A Thousand Miles Away: A History of North Queensland to 1920Relations between squatters and natives 1870-1890; early policies of assimilation; life on cattle stations; hostility to settlers; relations with Chinese and Papuans. |
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Overlanders 186170 | 24 |
Prospectors 186580 | 44 |
Planters 186578 | 71 |
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Aborigines acres alluvial Atherton Tableland Australia became bĂȘche-de-mer Black boom Bowen Brisbane British Burdekin Cairns cane canefields Cape York Peninsula capital Cardwell cattle central mills centres Charters Towers Chillagoe Chinese claims coast coastal Colonial Sugar coloured labour Cooktown copper Croydon crushing Daintree Dalrymple district eighties Etheridge European expedition farmers field gold goldfields graziers Griffith growers Herald Herbert River Herberton Hodgkinson Ingham Innisfail interests investors Irvinebank Italian John Johnstone Kanaka Kennedy land Mackay manager McIlwraith Melbourne ment miles mining Moffat Mount Garnet natives North Queens North Queensland Northern Miner Pacific Islanders Palmer party pastoral pastoralists Philp pioneer plantation planters Port Denison Port Douglas properties prospectors Queensland Government railway Ravenswood reef returned Robert Philp rush season selectors settlement settlers South Wales squatters station sugar industry sugar-growers Sydney took town township Townsville tropical Valley of Lagoons wages workers