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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.

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! Regarding the quest for gold, Marshall writes: "I sometimes start at night and wake up with a pang to think that the beautiful dream in which I have been indulging is only a dream; that I have been living in a fool's paradise, and the following morning shall see me out again on the 'wallaby,' with my swag on my back, ever on the weary quest for gold. But when I am fully awake and feel the eider down quilts on my couch, and see the evidences of wealth and luxury on every hand, the old, hopeless feeling, so well known in former days, gives place to one of exultation, and I realise that the old life has passed away, and a new and better life been opened to me." These stirring pages of gold field battles will continue to live on forever in Australian history. Contents The Discovery Of Gold In Westralia Finding Of Coolgardie Off To The Goldfields The Expected Storm The Bogus Gold "rush" At Coolgardie The Lucky Prospector Fire ! Fire ! Fire ! The First Great Fire Battling For A Home Goldfields Experience The Great Londonderry Golden Hole The Mount Black Rush Premier's First Visit To Coolgardie Sir John Forrkst's Triumph Danger, Disease And Death The First Goldfiei.ds Wedding Amenities Of Goldfields Political Life A Special Cyclist Chased By Dingoes "bail Up!" Or Robbery Under Arms Fortune, But, Alas! Too Late The Open Call Exchange The Great Golden Mountain The First Murder On The Goldfields Robbery Under Arms The Diggers Roll Up A Dear Drink Father Long And Hi Horrors Of Thirst The "graveyard Rush A Goldfields Riot Queen Of The Earth The Power Of Gold The Price Of The Goldfields Sacred Nugget At Kanoavna

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... "SHOOT AT HIM, OR I'LL KILL YOU!" A few weeks previous to the following incident taking place, Western Australia rang with the news of an extraordinarily rich gold mine having been discovered at Mount Catherine, which was described as " a mountain of gold." The miners were wonderfully stirred by the news, especially when it became known that some of the prospectors who had made the discovery had been taken into custody, on the information of one of their mates, on a charge of murdering a number of blacks who were supposed to have looted their camp. The accused had been brought into Coolgardie and tried on the capital charge, but they were ultimately acquitted. At the time our narrative begins, Sergeant Stokes was out in charge of a party trying to obtain evidence to support the testimony, or, at any rate, to find out the truth about the reported wholesale massacres. In the then state of the public mind, it was felt by the prospectors that to attempt to use firearms against the natives, for mere pilfering, was dangerous in the extreme, and it was only when brought face to face with the possibility of being killed that men, in selfdefence, would kill the natives. Thomas Black and Richard Farrell had set out from Coolgardie on a prospecting tour, but they had little luck when the news arrived that Mount Catherine had been discovered, and they immediately made for that neighbourhood, and were fortunate enough to discover a rich reef between Mount Catherine and Yirilla. The natives had frequently annoyed them, but nothing serious had taken place up to the time of which I write. The prospectors, however, knew that if they were deprived of their provisions by the aboriginals, there would not be the slightest hope of getting anmore, and they would, in all probabi...

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