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Crosby, Ron D.,

Gilbert Mair : Te Kooti's nemesis / Ron Crosby. - Auckland, [N.Z.] : Reed, c2004. - 352 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-338) and index.

List of maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Part 1. Youth and early career -- 1. The Mair family -- 2. The outbreak of war -- 3. First Rotorua engagement -- 4. Te Kooti -- Part 2. The pursuit of Te Kooti -- 5. Whakatane conflicts -- 6. First Urewera campaign -- 7. Second Rotorua engagement -- 8. No. 1 Arawa flying column -- 9. Waipaoa -- 10. The aftermath of Waipaoa -- 11. The transition to peace -- Part 3. The postwar years -- 12. Land purchase -- 13. Years of hope and sadness -- 14. Mair's roles in history and with Maori -- Appendix I. Retracing the steps of Gilbert Mair in the Urewera -- Appendix II. Mair -- Deveron, Banffshire, Scotland -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.

Mair was one of the stand-out figures of nineteeth- and early twentieth-century New Zealand.

ISBN: 0790009692 (pbk.) 9780790009698 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2004444335

Subjects--Personal Names:
Mair, Gilbert.
Te Kooti, 1830?-1893.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki--d. 1893.
Pakanga.
Kōrero nehe.
Kōrero taumata.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Zealand--History--New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: DU420.18.M35 / C76 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 993.022