Nettelbeck, A.2017-09-052017-09-052016Australian Historical Studies, 2016; 47(2):209-2241031-461X1940-5049http://hdl.handle.net/2440/107525A generation of scholarship on the experiences of the frontier—spanning models of violent conflict to various kinds of intimacy—has been highly influential in building a nuanced picture of Australia's colonial race relations. Regionally-focused histories provide a valuable avenue for bringing these models of frontier historiography together within the same frame, because it is at the localised level of social relations that the cross-hatched intersections between violence and intimacy can emerge into clearest view. This article traces the threads of cross-cultural encounter on one Australian frontier to assess how violent conflict could arise as much from conditions of inter-connectedness and familiarity as from conditions of strangeness and fear, and to ask, under such conditions, what kinds of frontier violence drew the intervention of the law.enCopyright status unknownJournal article003004988710.1080/1031461X.2016.11531200003801320000032-s2.0-84975317653248940Nettelbeck, A. [0000-0001-7099-6075]