In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the policing of the Australian frontier by Amanda Nettelbeck, Robert Foster

In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the policing of the Australian frontier

Amanda Nettelbeck, Robert Foster

258 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography sociology
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Mounted Constable William Willshire commanded a corps of Native Police in Central Australia during the 1880s, a time when conflict on that pastoral frontier was at its height. Notorious for the violence of his patrols, he was eventually tried in 1...

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