North Eastern Goldfields From Kookynie to Laverton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps on inside. Wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still very good. Includes folded map.

Facsimile copy of The Morning Herald Series of Western Australian Guide Books. No. 2

There was a time when a host of small bush outposts to the north of Kalgoorlie rivalled even that town's fabled gold discoveries. The 'yellow fever' of the 1890s in the Eastern Goldfields gave birth to communities that today are mostly forgotten: Kookynie, Malcolm, Leonora, Anaconda, Murrin Murrin, Yundamindera, Mount Morgans, Laverton, and Tampa.

In the 1903 booklet, their memory is revived, and the story is told of the most extraordinary engineering feat of the day: the Perth-Coolgardie water supply pipeline. It was a time of setting the scene for Western Australia's future progress. (front cover)