Bangemall, a Gascoyne mining village, 290 km ENE of Carnarvon, near Mt Augustus, cut a swathe through WA history in the 1890s. Lonely graves, lost gold mines, death by thirst, suicide and na...
Shillington and his mates discovered Sandstone. An interesting writer who could have become an antipodean Bret Harte, but instead had the trams running on time.
In the goldrushes from the 1880s to the 1930s, prospectors travelled far and wide with bush made barrows. Their fortitude and fame are one of the finest examples of the tenacity of our pione...
Bob Parker of Bundarra and Sydney, NSW, enlisted in the AIF in 1944 and served in BCOF, Japan. After discharge and the start of the Korean War he re-enlisted in the RAR. In the fortunes of w...
A battle in a good war (ie no white men were killed). An otherwise unrecorded native fight with the usual slaughter, sometime in the mid? 1800s.
Morrison was one of the best goldfields short story writers. This is the collection of his verse and prose.
John Marshall, adventurer, journalist, public figure and Digger’s leader on the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie goldfield wrote of early days on the fields in what is the best collection of goldfiel...
The story of the Canning Stock Route’s construction. This edition includes 23 pages of illustrations.
A detailed listing and text of the discoveries from 1829 to Bayley and Ford. Essential reference for historians and prospectors. The culmination of decades of collecting data.
The definitive history of the rushes to Golden Valley and Southern Cross up to the discovery of Coolgardie. Biographies and photos of the main prospectors involved...