Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance - The Bathurst War, 1822–1824 Brand / Blue Island Press Keep air tight and away

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Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance - The Bathurst War, 1822–1824 Brand / Blue Island Press Keep air tight and awayIn May 1824, what can only be described as a period of all out, total gudyarra (war in the Wiradyuri language) had begun west of the Blue Mountains. Relations between Wiradyuri people and the colonists in the country around Bathurst had completely broken down, and the number of raids and killings occurring across isolated stock stations in the district had intensified.In Gudyarra, Stephen Gapps award winning author of The Sydney Wars unearths what led