Title: Hero stories of New Zealand /
Authors: Cowan, James, 1870-1943.
Publisher: Southern Reprints,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people) History.; Frontier and pioneer life New Zealand; New Zealand History.; New Zealand History, Military.
Contents: The last stand at Te Amotu -- How Te-Rau-o-te-Rangi crossed the Strait of Kapiti -- The missionaries of Matamata -- The pirates of the Wellington brig -- The storming party of Ohawawai -- The colours of the 58th -- The bugler of Boulcott's Farm -- Manihera's farewell -- The swordsman in the swamp -- The scouts in the flax bush : a Von Tempsky story -- How Sergeant McKenna won the Victoria Cross -- How the settlers held the Pukekohe Stockade -- The weird of MacGillivray -- The defenders of Orakau -- Ahumai te Paerata and Huria Matenga -- The heroine of Gate Pa -- A meal at Paewhenua -- A memory of Whakatane Valley -- An episode of the First Urewera Campaign -- How Gilbert Mair saved Rotorua -- Maro and her lovers -- Patriots of the Taranaki border -- The missionary and the Hauhau apostles -- How the Waitotara settlers saved their stock -- Te Whiti of Taranaki -- Explorers and pathfinders : the spade of Rakaihaitu -- The epic of Raureka and the greenstone -- A pioneer surveyor on the golden coast -- Donald Sutherland and Quinton McKinnon -- The coracle of Disappointment Island.