| The following are some of the
events in Central Queensland History used as a backdrop for the novel Stone Country. · Immigration, the backbone of Central Queensland - many migrants were German.· The use of Native Mounted Police to kill their own race in the name of the Law. · The multiplicity of pastoral problems which beset early settlers both to the east and in the west. · The construction of the Great Western Railway to Anakie (1879). · The discovery of sapphires at Retreat Creek (Anakie ca. 1875) and the quest to find markets for Queensland meat and precious stones.
Stone Country is true to the spirit and nature of Central Queensland and is woven around some of Central Queenslands history but the characters, families, homesteads and many of the events portrayed, are imaginary. Stone Country and its imaginary characters will bring these events to life with chilling reality. |