A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period.
Firs editon. Two vols, Vol. I 1845-1864, Vol II. 1864-72. Frontispiece to each and numerous illustrations, maps and plans throughout. 8vo. A fine set indeed in the original red cloth with pictorial spines. xx, 459pp., xx, 550pp. Wellington, By Authority of the Hon. the Minister of Internal Affairs, W.A.G. Skinner, Government Printer, 1922.
Bruce 4605. “Valuable for its detailed accounts of military operations.”
Official Government-commissioned history for which Cowan interviewed surviving combatants both European and Maori.
