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Title: The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I: 1845–1864
Author: James Cowan, F.R.G.S.
Publication details: R. E. Owen, 1955, Wellington
Part of: New Zealand Wars (1845–1872)