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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Jimmy Governor : Blood on the Tracks
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'The book examines why Governor murdered nine people, as well as the treatment of Aborigines by the Europeans who invaded their lands. Pursued through the bush by 100 police and as many civilians, Governor and his brother Joe evaded capture for more than three months. Defined as a half-caste, Governor challenged the white man's Aboriginal stereotype of 1900 - he was highly intelligent, better educated than many of his white contemporaries, personable, a hard worker and he did not drink alcohol. When he married a white girl, he felt the full force of racism. ' Source:ww.winghamchronicle.com.au/ (Sighted 17/11/2009).

Notes

  • Dedication: To Sarah, Kate, Rachel and Jo

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Brolga Publishing , 2009 .
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      Extent: xvii, 370pp.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Includes

        • Author's note (p xvii)
        • Introduction by Professor Henry Reynolds and extract from The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (q.v.) (p.xi-xv)
        • bibliographical references (p. 359-360) and index.
      ISBN: 9781921596018 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 January 2010; (p. 33)

— Review of Strine : The Complete Works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder Afferbeck Lauder , 2009 selected work column drama lyric/song poetry prose ; Jimmy Governor : Blood on the Tracks Maurie Garland , 2009 single work biography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 January 2010; (p. 33)

— Review of Strine : The Complete Works of Professor Afferbeck Lauder Afferbeck Lauder , 2009 selected work column drama lyric/song poetry prose ; Jimmy Governor : Blood on the Tracks Maurie Garland , 2009 single work biography
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Subjects:
  • Breelong, Gilgandra area, Coonabarabran - Gilgandra - Coonamble area, Central West NSW, New South Wales,
  • 1900
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