Back to the Goldfields : Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie 1892 – 1940

MINING West Australiana

First Edition. HARDCOVER.

“This book attempts to relive some of the early pioneering history of the Eastern Goldfields through the memories of my father, other old Eastern goldfielders, and my own research. The writer asks to be excused for quoting from Arthur’s Reid’s ‘Those Were The Days’, one of the few accurate sources of reports on the day to day life of the early pioneers during the first ten momentous years of the history of the Eastern Goldfields, their trials and tribulations,expectations, rewards and bitter disappointments, comradeship, hardships and eternal optimism along with early developments of the rugged, waterless areas they prospected and developed with indomitable courage, determination, spirit of adventure, business acumen, sportsmanship and citizenship.”228 x 150mm., pp. vi (preliminaries), 154, black & white plates, bibliography. Hard cover in laminated pictorial boards.
#131221R