y separately published work icon Sand and Stone: Pigeon single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Sand and Stone: Pigeon
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This is Pigeon's story and of those who suffered his reign of terror and the men who hunted him.

It is without academe historians' fashionable fabrications and elaborations, which in recent times have dissembled the past to rewrite history as they would like it, not as 'it was. They attack any historical writing that questions their spurious promotion of utopian aboriginal culture. They will not welcome this work.'

'The truth may destroy the legend of Pigeon, but importantly it will show the pioneers of this furthest frontier were mainly decent young men who survived against the odds and were of immense courage and fortitude. It is a true story of a legend that belongs to the pioneer police, but was stolen from them by the falsity of Pigeon's myth makers.'

'Pigeon's cowardice is shown by the callous murder of Constable Richardson in his sleep; in the shooting of the stockmen Burke and Gibbs in the back, and his involvement in the spearing and shooting of Tom Jasper in the head as he slept.'

'Pigeon, through the barrel of a gun, tyrannised his own people, defied tribal laws and the old men and seized what women he wanted and when on the run he and his gang resorted to cannibalisation of their own people. He fled his after ammunition was spent and escaped tribal punishment twice.' In the end white man's justice prevailed.' (Source: Publishers website)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Carlisle, Victoria Park area, South & South East Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Hesperian Press , 2011 .
      Extent: xvi, 110p.
      Description: illus., maps and ports.
      Note/s:
      • The second book in the Kimberley series
      ISBN: 0859054489 (pbk), 9780859054485 (pbk)
      Series: y separately published work icon Aboriginal Studies Series Hesperian Press , Carlisle : Hesperian Press , 1980- 9949601 1980 series - publisher biography

      These books have either total Aboriginal content, substantial Aboriginal content, or contain Aboriginal material of interest. (Hesperian Press website)

      Number in series: 52
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