| Main Title: |
With a letter to Mr La Trobe. : life of W.H. Foster 1852-1894 / Dorothy La Trobe Leopold. |
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| Author: |
Leopold, Dorothy La Trobe.
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| Imprint: |
Melbourne, Vic. : Lynedoch Publications, 1988. |
| Collation: |
ill., portraits, pbk ; 21 cm. 102 p. : |
| Subject: |
Foster, William Henry 1833?-1894.
Pioneers
Police
Biography
Foster family (Vic.)
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| ISBN: |
073163764X |
| Notes: |
Contents: Voyage and arrival p1. Police station in the bush p8. Ballarat and Eureka p11. Chinese Protector p16. Holiday in Tasmania p29. Marriage and return to England p32. Omeo p43. New territory in Gippsland p50. Sale, Walhalla and Donnelly's Creek p53. Grant on the Crooked River Goldfield p61. Social life in Sale p64. Stockyard Creek diggings become Foster p72. Mining dispute in Walhalla p75. Family death and farewell to Sale p78. Beechworth and the Kelly Gang p82. Sad news from a remote goldfield p89. Last years in Beechworth and return to Ballarat p92. Appendix: Some background to the Foster and La Trobe families.
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