Mates and Gold: Reminiscences of Early Westralian Goldfields, 1890-1896 by N K Sligo

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers. Remnants of borrow a card pocket and date juice slip on inside pages. Binding has been reinforced. Spine is now covered in protective book tape. Right side front cover and left side back cover also protected with book tape.

Mates and Gold tells of bush life in the Western Australian desert, dangerous journeys and lonely deaths by typhoid, thirst, murder, spearing and retributional massacre. Vast new goldfields, gold won and lost, of bush mates and memories of a life long past.

Mates and Gold is an insight into the fortitude and humour with which the early prospectors faced the harshness of the goldfields. It is one of the few books on the great 1890s goldrush written by one of the original prospectors. (back cover)