John Marshall
Battling for Gold, or, Stirring incidents of goldfields life in West Australia
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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.
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
Shoot At Him Or I'll Rill Yoi
A Goldfields Riot
Queen Of The Earth ..
The Power Of Gold ..
The Price Of The Goldfields
Sacred Nugget
At Kanoavna
This 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.