Leighton Frappell, Lords of the Saltbush Plains: Frontier Squatters and the Pastoral Independence Movement 1865-1866.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Australian Studies | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: Hogg, Robert | Copyright information

Leighton Frappell, Lords of the Saltbush Plains: Fontier Squatters and the Pastoral Independence Movement 1865-1866, Australian Scholarly Publications, Melbourne, 2003, pp 226, pb $39.95, ISBN 1740970233.

In Lords of the Saltbush Plains, Leighton Frappell tells the story of a nineteenth-century rural independence movement, the purpose of which was to establish a colony in the western half of New South Wales, from the Murray River in the south to the Queensland border in t...

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