Reports of clash between Queensland cattlemen and Aborigines, August 1871

Date: 1 Aug 1871
Place: 180 miles north of Killalpaninna
Reports that there was a large mob of cattle about 180 miles north of Gason's Killalpaninna camp and that a drover might have been killed. Aboriginal reports say that the whitemen had returned to Queensland having wounded three Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people reportedly attacked them in return, but without killing anyone.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Reports of clash between Queensland cattlemen and Aborigines, August 1871
    1 Aug 1871 — 180 miles north of Killalpaninna
    Reports that there was a large mob of cattle about 180 miles north of Gason's Killalpaninna camp and that a drover might have been killed. Aboriginal reports say that the whitemen had returned to Queensland having wounded three Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people reportedly attacked them in return, but without killing anyone.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier