Media: BOOK - paperback, 76 pages
Author: J. Marshall
Year: (1903) 2015
ISBN: 9780859056137
Other: photos
Publisher: Hesperian Press

Facsimile of the 1903 edition. John Marshall, was an adventurer, a journalist, a public figure and a Digger's leader on the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie goldfield. It was here that he wrote of the early days on the fields in 'Battling for Gold'.

This title still remains as one of the best collection of goldfields stories in Western Australia. Stories such as: McCann's nugget, the great Coolgardie fire, the Londonderry golden hole, the goldfield's riots, danger, diseases, death and gold, gold, gold are all mentioned here along with numerous others.

These stirring incidents of goldfields life will live on forever in Australian history.

Contents:
Preface
The Discovery of Gold in Western Australia
Finding of Coolgardie
Off to the Goldfields
The Expected Storm
The Bogus Gold 'Rush' at Coolgardie
The Lucky Prospector
Fire! Fire! Fire!
Battling for a Home
Goldfield Experience
The Great londonderry Golden Hole
The Mount Black Rush
Premier's First Visit to Coolgardie
Sir John Forrest's Triumph
Danger, Disease and Death
The First Goldfields Wedding
Amenities of Goldfields Political Life
A Special Cyclist Chased 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 His 'Sacred Nugget'
Horrors of Thirst
The 'Graveyard Rush' at Kanowna
Shoot at Him of I'll Kill You
A Goldfield Riot
Queen of the Earth
The Power of Gold
The Price of the Goldfields