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Flogging, Measles and Grass: the influence of early York settlers on bushfire policy in Western Australia
Ward, David and Roger Underwood. 2003. Fire, Flogging, Measles and Grass: the influence of early York settlers on bushfire policy in Western Australia. Barladong (4) 2003: 16-27 (Barladong is the journal of the York Historical Society in Western Australia).
Note — this paper is a revision of an earlier paper:
David Ward. 1998. Fire, Flogging, Measles and Grass: Nineteenth Century Land Use Conflict in South-Western Australia. Dept. of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia.
Full text of the 1998 paper, which includes references and reprints of colonial correspondence, is [here] (3.6 MB)
Full text of the 2003 paper [here]