Cultural References
Details of the massacre have featured in numerous non-fiction publications. One of the most comprehensive was Wade Doak's "The Burning of the 'Boyd' - A Saga of Culture Clash (1984), which is out of print.
The massacre was the subject of a 2010 New Zealand children's book, The Shadow of the Boyd, by Diana Menefy, and a 2005 historical fiction novel, The Boyd Massacre, by Ian Macdonald. The latter author, an Australian, claims to be a descendant of Boyd survivor Betsey Broughton.
The massacre has also featured in paintings by Louis Auguste Sainson (The Boyd Incident ), Louis John Steele (The Blowing Up of the Boyd ), and Walter Wright (The Burning of the Boyd ).
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