Gateways to Gold by H H Wilson

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Numerous stamps on inside pages. Rusty marks on inside front and back covers from sticky tape. Wear to book corners and edges. Pen mark on tail foredges. Dust jacket is faded at spine and has some tearing to edges. It is now enclosed in plastic protector.

Gold was the magnet that drew thousands of people to Murchison in the 1890s. Undaunted by heat, lack of water, and amenities, they tore up the ground in a frenzied search for wealth. Tiny towns were established and inhabited by hard-drinking, open-handed communities. Women and children followed, battling heat and disease.

Until WWI, the Murchison boomed, but then it began to die.

As a girl, Helen Wilson lived in the goldfields and revisited in the 1960s. She combines her observations, reminisces, and research into a fast-moving narrative full of human interest. (book flap)