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Camp at Barrow Creek extract diary

Author:agent F. J. Gillen

Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 Camp at Barrow Creek

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The author describes the attack and killing of staff at the Barrow Creek Telegraph Station by Aborigines in 1874. Includes Geoffrey Crabthorn's poem 'The Last Message'.

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y Gillen's Diary : The Camp Jottings of F. J. Gillen on the Spencer and Gillen Expedition Across Australia, 1901-1902 F. J. Gillen , Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1968 Z1399420 1968 single work diary Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia , 1968
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1968
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pg. 107-109
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y North of the Ten Commandments : A Collection of Northern Territory Literature David Headon (editor), Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z54431 1991 anthology poetry short story prose correspondence extract Abstract
'The writers and story-tellers included in this collection relate an important, even epic tale. They tell a story which in 1988 (white Australia's bicentennial year) rarely received attention because, while it tells of courage and love, it also focuses on killing and conquest, eccentricity and madness, and a land as hostile and murderous as it could be gentle and caring...' (Source: Preface)
Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991
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1991
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pg. 51-52
Note: Accompanying black and white photograph of Barrow Creek Telegraph Station on p51.

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Barrow Creek, Southern Northern Territory, Northern Territory,

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