Written for the settlers on both sides of the old Maori border, this history of the Waipa district around Te Awamutu begins with its landscape and legends. Cowan follows the missionary era, the Maori ploughs and flour-mills, the Waikato War with its garrisons at Paterangi and Rangiaowhia, and the frontier life and settlement that came after.
A vivid local history by one of New Zealand’s leading chroniclers of the colonial wars. Download the free EPUB.