Barry Corr has lived most of his life near Dhurabang, the river that settler society calls the Hawkesbury and the Nepean. As a university student he was a member of Student Action for Aborigines and took part in the 1965 bus trip which has been memorialised as the Freedom Ride including follow-up trips to Walgett and Bowraville in 1965–66. He worked as a teacher and as an Aboriginal Education Consultant at a regional and state level. Living in the Hawkesbury, he is well-equipped to write on the Hawkesbury’s Frontier War.