List of figures List of maps List of tables A note on language Preface: Imagining Lower Laura Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Knowing the frontier - The Queensland Native Mounted Police and frontier violence - Where is the archaeology of frontier conflict? - Materialising frontier conflict Chapter 2 Camps and conflict in the landscape Native Mounted Police camps across space and time Camp construction Conflicts on the frontier Counting the toll Chapter 3 "Gentlemen of more or less education and refinement": the officers of the Native Mounted Police "Young gentlemen of good character" Weapons of war The archaeology of savage living: uniforms, ceramics and commensality Chapter 4 Savages or servants? The troopers of the Native Mounted Police Who were the troopers of the Native Mounted Police? Allies or underlings? Small choices Chaper 5 "A perfect harem": women and the Native Mounted Police White women and the Native Mounted Police Aboriginal women and the Native Mounted Police Children Chapter 6 Life in a Native Mounted Police camp - "Fever and the rough hard life I had to live" - "Constant habits of intoxication" - "I am very lonley [sic] to be so far away from you" Chapter 7 War, fear and architecture - "War to the knife" - "[I] am frightened of blacks when I am alone" - The psychology of war - A fortified frontier? Chapter 8 Impacts on Country and culture - Encountering the Other - "All kinds of iron" - "Weapons of the most deadly kind" Chapter 9 Unburying the Native Mounted Police - (Re)imagining frontier conflict - Remembering and forgetting the Native Mounted Police - Navigating and naming the north: a gazetteer of Native Mounted Police placenames - Trophies of war - The Native Mounted Police in the 21st century References Index Appendix 1: Native Mounted Police camps in Queensland and northern New South Wales (reliable camps only) Appendix 2: Methods of mapping conflicts Appendix 3: Historic pastoral districts.