Media: BOOK - hardcover, 240 pages
Author: W. Owen
Year: 1984
ISBN: 0859050432
Other: b&w photos, index
Publisher: Hesperian Press

The author's vivid reminiscences of the life of the North West from the 1880's to the 1930's have long been a favourite of the people of Pilbara - gold, pearling, aboriginals, diamonds, murder and madness in the great but empty North.

Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Wanderlust
The North-West
A Seat of Government
A Community in the Making
The Days Before the Gold
The Finding
The Rush
Personalities, Characters and Oddities
Fish, Flesh, Food Generally
Anecdotes, Episodes and Interludes
Crime
The Original Inhabitants
Index