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Battling for Gold
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Facsimile of the 1903 edition. John Marshall, was an adventurer, a journalist, a public figure and a Digger's leader on the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie goldfield. It was here that he wrote of ...
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Beyond Boundary Fences
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George McDonald (the author) was an Inspector of Police in Kalgoorlie during the 1890s. In 'Beyond Boundary Fences' he relates stories of the early Murchison goldfields characters, prospectors, Aboriginals, bushmen, outlaws and incidents of bush life.
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Chasing the Weight 1886-1912
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From the Kimberley in 1886 to the Pilbara, Ashburton, Murchison, Kalgoorlie, Greenbushes and Donnybrook. Reminiscences of a pioneer prospector.
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Coolgardie Gold
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Facsimile. Albert Gaston, the author, was at York in 1892 when the report of the discovery of gold at Coolgardie filled thousands of young men with eagerness to try their ...
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Cossack Gold: The Chronicles of An Early Goldfields Warden
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The author's vivid reminiscences of the life of the North West from the 1880's to the 1930's have long been a favourite of the people of Pilbara - gold, pearling, ...
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Dollypot
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The 'Dolly Pot' column in 'The Western Mail' between 1936 and 1942 was initiated by Cyril Longmore and later taken over by Malcolm Uren. The column started out ...
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Gold on the Murchison: A Tale of Twin Towns (Cue and Daydawn) of People, Progress and Gold
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This is a story of twin towns - Cue and Day Dawn - and the part the towns and their people played in the development of Murchison gold. From the first rushes in the 1880s and the hardships of the pioneers to Cue's status as the 'Queen of the Murchison', the decay to ghost towns ...
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Gold!: The Fever That Forever Changed Australia
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Australia's incredible gold rushes of the mid to late-1800s produced tremendous wealth and ensured the financial survival of the struggling Australian colonies. Not only that, but they also tripled the country's small population. David Hill relates the people and events of this monumental turning point in Australia's history ...
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Golden Days: Being Memoirs and Reminiscences of the Goldfields of Western Australia
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A reprint of the 1929 classic on the eastern goldfields. The author writes in his Foreword: '... life on the goldfields of Western Australia was period packed with romance ...
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Kanownas Barrowman-Balzano-Kal Gold R.-S
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Land of Gold
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Price was the special correspondent of the Illustrated London News. His visit in 1895 to the Westralian Goldfields is recorded in this book, together with a view of the colony ...
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Leaves From a Prospectors Diary
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James Edmund Tregurtha was born on 22 April 1867 at Deniliquin, New South Wales, to James Bryant ant Frances Marguarite Tregurtha. He was apprenticed at fifteen to a ...
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Londonderry: The Golden Hole
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This book is presented to the public in commemoration of Coolgardie's centenary year. The subsequent spectacular discovery of gold a few miles south at Londonderry remain to this ...
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Mates and Gold: Reminiscences of the Early Westralian Goldfields 1890-1896
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Bush life in the Western Australian desert, dangerous journeys and lonely deaths by typhoid, thirst, murder, spearing and retributional massacre. Vast new goldfields, gold won - and lost. Of bush ...
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My Fourth Tour in Western Australia
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One of the most magnificent books on the WA goldfields and bush. Hundreds of photos and sketches of people and places.
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Northern Patrol: An Australian Saga
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Travellers who venture into the northern and eastern parts of Western Australia enter a world that is still very much a frontier. The landscapes are spectacular by unforgiving; ...
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On Gold!
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Cyril Longmore was one of Western Australia's best journalists. He wrote and spoke for Australians in a way the few have. Once many Australian newspapers reflected the views of their ...
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Spinifex and Sand
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First hand account of the Coolgardie gold rush, the suffering of the prospectors, great gold discoveries, his own long march with typhoid fever, the desert tribes, the constant search for water ...
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The Challenge and the Chance
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The colonisation and settlement of North West Australia 1861-1914. It focuses on black-white relationships, and the changing attitudes and moralities of white Australians when they too became indigenous.
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The Employee Register for the Kalgurlie Mine
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The book is a calendar index to employees in the Kalgurlie (Kalgoorlie)/Boulder area of the Western Australian goldfields. The earliest registration appears to be on 1 May 1899 when C Carlson was entered ...
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The Golden Quest: the Roaring Days of West Australian Gold Rushes and Life in the Pearling Industry
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The late Arthur C.V. Bligh is one of the few early pioneers to keep records of his interesting life, and 'The Golden Quest' tells in his own words, of such things as the search for gold and the hazards of pearling, besides giving a vivid general picture of life in the early days of the ...
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The Golden West and How it Was Discovered
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Greaves and his partners discovered the Yilgarn goldfield in 1887. This is a detailed account of the discovery and its results for Greaves and his partners.
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Youanmi: A History of Murchison Gold
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This story of Youanmi is about the town, the people who lived in it, and the fortunes over the years of the Youanmi Gold Mine. The continuity in the account ...
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