Battling for Gold, or, Stirring incidents of goldfields life in West Australia
John Marshall
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John Marshall, (1859-1908) was an adventurer, journalist, public figure and Digger’s leader on the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie gold field who wrote of the early days on West Australia's gold fields in "Battling For Gold."This 1903 book has remained the greatest collection of Australian gold rush stories ever written and it recounts with vivid detail McCann's nugget, the great Coolgardie fire, the Londonderry golden hole, the gold field's rioting, dangers, disease, death, and of course gold, gold, and more gold!These stirring pages of gold field battles will continue to live on forever in Australian history.ContentsThe Discovery Of Gold In WestraliaFinding Of CoolgardieOff To The GoldfieldsThe Expected Storm The Bogus Gold "rush" At CoolgardieThe Lucky ProspectorFire ! Fire ! Fire !The First Great FireBattling For A HomeGoldfields ExperienceThe Great Londonderry Golden HoleThe Mount Black RushPremier's First Visit To Coolgardie...Sir John Forrkst's TriumphDanger, Disease And Death ..The First Goldfiei.ds WeddingAmenities Of Goldfields Political LifeA Special Cyclist Chased By Dingoes"bail Up!" Or Robbery Under Arms...Fortune, But, Alas! Too LateThe Open Call ExchangeThe Great Golden MountainThe First Murder On The GoldfieldsRobbery Under ArmsThe Diggers Roll UpA Dear DrinkFather Long And HiHorrors Of ThirstThe "graveyard RushShoot At Him Or I'll Rill YoiA Goldfields RiotQueen Of The Earth ..The Power Of Gold ..The Price Of The GoldfieldsSacred Nugget At KanoavnaThis book originally published in 1903 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.