The old frontier: Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley
by James Cowan
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cowan, James, 1870-1943
- Title
- The old frontier: Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley The missionary, the soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement
- Original Publication
- New Zealand: The Waipa Post Printing and Publishing Company,1922.
- Credits
- Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas)
- Subject
- Waipa District (N.Z.) -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 67490
- Release Date
- February 24, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.TOPOGRAPHICAL AND LEGENDARY. — NOTES.
- 5.THE MISSIONARY ERA.
- 6.PLOUGH AND FLOUR-MILL.
- 7.THE GOLDEN AGE BEFORE THE WAR.
- 8.JOHN GORST AT TE AWAMUTU. — (Translation.) — THE LAST CANOE VOYAGE.
- 9.THE WAIKATO WAR. — PATERANGI AND WAIARI.
- 10.THE CAPTURE OF RANGIAOWHIA.
- 11.THE ENGAGEMENT AT HAIRINI. — THE RANGIAOWHIA BLOCKHOUSE.
- 12.THE INVASION OF KIHIKIHI.
- 13.THE BATTLE OF ORAKAU. — THE SECOND DAY. — THE THIRD DAY. — INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE. — THE MAORI DEFENCE. — A MAORI SURVIVOR’S STORY. — THE RETREAT TO THE PUNIU.
- 14.CAMP LIFE AT TE AWAMUTU. — THE ROMANCE OF ARIANA.
- 15.PIONEER LIFE ON THE OLD FRONTIER.
- 16.A FOLK-TALE OF THE TOKANUI HILLS.
- 17.APPENDICES — SOME MAORI PLACE NAMES. — THE CAPTURE OF WINIATA. — MR HURSTHOUSE’S ADVENTURE IN THE KING COUNTRY. — MAHUKI’S RAID ON ALEXANDRA, AND HIS CAPTURE. — THE NAME RANGIAOWHIA. — THE FIRST WAIPA MISSIONARY. — THE KING COUNTRY RAILWAY.
- 18.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections
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