Tennant's overseer pelted with stones and shots fired, May 1846

Date: 26 Apr 1846
Place: Tennant’s station ‘near Mt Brown’
Anderson, Mr Tennant’s overseer, stated that Aboriginal people had ‘appeared on the rocks near Mt Brown & had pelted him with stones’. Being alone, he did not fire. When joined by a shepherd, the two Europeans fired, ‘but without effect’.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Tennant's overseer pelted with stones and shots fired, May 1846
    26 Apr 1846 — Tennant’s station ‘near Mt Brown’
    Anderson, Mr Tennant’s overseer, stated that Aboriginal people had ‘appeared on the rocks near Mt Brown & had pelted him with stones’. Being alone, he did not fire. When joined by a shepherd, the two Europeans fired, ‘but without effect’.
    (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