THE RED CHIEF AS TOLD BY THE LAST OF HIS TRIBE by Ion L. Idriess, ANGUS AND ROBERTSON SYDNEY - LONDON, 1953 226 pages. The Red Chief by Ion L. Idriess is about a legendary Australian aboriginal chief that lived from about 1650 to 1745, long before any European presence. His life and times were passed down in oral history, from what may have been the last full blood of his tribe, to Senior Sargent John P. Ewing, mentioned in Gunneday in 1886. (1829-1911) The recounting of the stories about Cumbo Gunnerah were conscientiously written down from about a...
