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Mount Abundance: or The Experiences of a Pioneer Squatter in Australia
The Australian squatter, pastoralist and member of the Legislative Assembly, Allan Macpherson shares his experience in this historical novel on nineteenth century life as a settler. Born in Scotland, Macpherson moved to Sydney with his parents as a boy in 1829, where he attended Cape's School and later squatted on the rural properties of Keera near Bingara, New South Wales and Mount Abundance near Roma in Queensland. Macpherson's account of his experiences as a squatter, relives his constant conflicts with the Aboriginal peoples of the Mandandanji nation, an indigenous Australian people of Queensland.
John A. Macdonald
John A. Macdonald's flamboyant personality dominated Canadian public life from the years preceding Confederation to the end of the 19th century. 'Probably the greatest Canadian biography yet published in English' - Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
A Private Empire
A Private Empire explores Britain's imperial past through the eyes and experiences of a single family. Historian Stephen Foster focuses on the Macphersons of Blairgowrie in Scotland, who recorded their private and public lives through five generations in an extraordinary archive of letters, documents and diaries. Elegantly presented with contemporary paintings and photographs, A Private Empire tells an intimate story of ambition and frustration, love and deception, wisdom and folly, pride and shame, passion and restraint, an attachment to place, an affection for kin-all set against the grand shifting background of Britain's imperial rule. 'In a world overpopulated by self-indulgent family hi...
Mount Abundance: Or the Experiences of a Pioneer Squatter in Australia Thirty Years Ago
The Mount Abundance run changed into taken up in 1847 through Allan MacPherson (1818-1891), a young squatter from New South Wales. MacPherson had come to Queensland seeking new pastures and had observed the path of Sir Thomas Mitchell into the Mount Abundance region. Following steady conflicts with neighborhood Aboriginies, MacPherson decided Mount Abundance become a risky place and in overdue 1849, he withdrew his sheep from Mount Abundance, leaving it as a cattle station, and back to England. In 1856 MacPherson, in brief, visited Australia at which era he disposed of his pastoral hobbies, along with the sale of Mount Abundance to Stephen Spencer.
The Invention of Scotland
This book argues that while Anglo-Saxon culture has given rise to virtually no myths at all, myth has played a central role in the historical development of Scottish identity. Hugh Trevor-Roper explores three myths across 400 years of Scottish history: the political myth of the "ancient constitution" of Scotland; the literary myth, including Walter Scott as well as Ossian and ancient poetry; and the sartorial myth of tartan and the kilt, invented--ironically, by Englishmen--in quite modern times. Trevor-Roper reveals myth as an often deliberate cultural construction used to enshrine a people's identity. While his treatment of Scottish myth is highly critical, indeed debunking, he shows how t...
Australian Autobiographical Narratives
Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.
Remember Muckadilla
Muckadilla Township is on the Warrego Highway about 40 kilometers from Roma in South Western Queensland. We trust that the insight given by many will benefit Present and Future Generations who appreciate the Characters who came to open up Mount Abundance Properties, Build the Railway, School and Businesses. Then enjoy each others company at Sporting Events. Barry Mc Mullen used to say, “Muckadilla Country is good enough to fatten a crowbar!” – We hope there will always be people who say with a chuckle, “I’ve been to Muckadilla – have you?”
