And All So Far From Home....Western Australian Goldfields
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GOLDFIELDS BOOKS
Many books cover a wide range of areas in the Goldfields
For books written specifically about a town or area please click on the town name
A CENTURY OF SCRIPPING History of Eyres Reed Stock Brokers 1996
AND SOME FOUND GRAVES –Goldfields diary of John Aspinall by A J Thompson – Hesperian Press 1993
A RICH ENDOWMENT –GOVERNMENT & MINING IN WA 1892-1994 by Ken Spillman 1993
BACK TO THE GOLDFIELDS by A N Bingley 1988
BATTLING FOR GOLD by John Marshall 1903 – reprint Hesperian Press 1984
CAMELS AMD THE OUTBACK by H M Barker 1964 – Hesperian Press reprint
CANNING STOCK ROUTE by Rnel & Eric Gard 1990
CHASING THE WEIGHT by F Cammilleri – Hesperian Press 1986
COLOURFUL TALES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by Norma King
CHOOK ON SUNDAYS by T Ainslie & R Garwood – Plantagent Press 1992 (Photographic Book)
CY O’CONNOR –HIS LIFE & LEGACY by A G Evans - UWA 2001
DARKEST WESTERN AUSTRALIA by H G B Masin –Hesperian Press 1980
DAUGHTERS OF MIDAS by Norma King – Hesperian Press 1988
DOLLYPOT by P J Bridge – Hesperian Press 1987
GATEWAYS TO GOLD by H H Wilson – Rigby 1969
GLINT OF GOLD by Malcolm Uren pub 1948 Robertson & Mullins
GOLD AND GHOSTS Vol 1 & 2 by D W de Havelland – Hesperian Press 1986
GOLD AND LIQUID GOLD obsolete breweries of the WA Goldfields by Geoff Spiller 2002
GOLD AND TYPHOID – Two Fevers by Vera Whittington – UWA 1988
GOLD FEVER & OTHER DISEASES by Peter Blyth 1993
GOLD IN THE BLOOD by James Doughty – Rigby 1977
GOLDEN DAYS by Jules Raeside 1929– reprint Hesperian Press
GOLDEN DESTINY by Martyn & Audrey Webb pub 1993
GOLDFIELDS SPORT by John Terrell pub 1993
GRAVEL RASH 100 years of Goldfields Football by Les Everett 1996
IN THE HANDS OF PROVIDENCE Desert Joureys of David Carnegie by William Peasley - St George Books 1995
KANOWNA’S BARROWMAN James Balzano by G Compton & R Manners – Hesperian Press
LAND OF GOLD by Julius M Price – Hesperian Press 1981
LEAVES FROM A PROSPECTORS DIARY – Tregurtha – Hesperian Press
MATES AND GOLD by N K Sligo – Hesperian Press 1995
MAGNIFICENT MINER Claude de Bernales by H Colebatch – Hesperian Press
MY DEAR EMMA by Robert Tyler – Fremantle Arts Press 2003
MY FOURTH TOUR IN WA by A F Calvert – Hesperian Press
NICKEL COUNTRY GOLD COUNTRY by Norma King – Rigby 1972
OFF LIKE FLIES by T Ainslie & R Garwood Plantagent Press 1990 ( Photographic Book)
PIPE-DREAM TO PIPELINE – The eventful Life of Nathaniel W Harper by Stan Gervas 2001
PUBLICANS AND SINNERS by Arthur Dunstan abt 1985
QUEST FOR GOLD by Mike Wattone –Contralands Press 1885
SO I HEADED WEST by W G Manners – Hesperian Press 1992
SPINFEX AND SAND by David W Carnegie –facsimile Hesperian Press 1982
THE BECKONING WEST – Trottman and the Canning Stock Route by Eleanor Smith –St George Press 1966
THE DIARIES OF FRANK HANN by M Donaldson & I Elliot – Hesperian Press
THE FIELDS by I Templeman & B McDonald – Fremantle Arts Press1988 ( Photographic Book)
THE GLITTERING YEARS by Arthur L Bennett – St George Books 1982
THE GOLDEN WEST AND HOW IT WAS DISCOVERED by Dick Greaves – Hesperian Press 1981
THE OUTBACK TRAIL by Gus Luck – Hesperian Press
THE RUSH THAT NEVER ENDED by Geoffrey Blainey – Melbourne Uni Press 1981
TIN MOSQUES & GHANTOWNS by Christine Stevens pub Oxford Uni Press 1989
THOSE WERE THE DAYS by Arthur Reid - facsimile Hesperian Press
TRAVELS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by May Vivienne – reprint Hesperian Press
TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPRESSION – facsimile Hesperian Press
WALKER IN THE WILDERNESS the life of RJ Anketell by Judith Anketell - Hesperian 1998
WAY TO GOLD IN WA by Mike Wattone –Contraland Press 1981
WAY TO GOLD 11 by Mike Wattone –Contraland Press 1992
WESTWARD GOLD by H H Wilson – pub Rigby 1973
WHERE FORTUNES LAY by A J Macgeorge – Hesperian Press
WINGS OVER THE GOLDFIELDS – The History of the RFDS by Norma King
WINNING THE GOLD IN WA by Mike Wattone – Contraland Press 1982
OTHER BOOKS THAT MAY ASSIST IN RESEARCH
AUSTRALIA TWICE TRAVERSED by Ernest Giles – Hesperian Press
BRODIE Memoirs of Sir Brodie Hall – Access Press 1994
BUILDING A STATE – History of Public Works Dept in WA – pub Water Authority of WA 1986
BUT WESTWARD LOOK – Nursing in WA 1829-1979 by Victoria Hobbs –UWA 1980
ERNEST GILES – Explorer & Traveller by Rica Ericson – Hesperian Press 1997
GRANDFATHER WAS A POLICEMAN WA police Force by Mollie Bentley –Hesperian Press 1993
GUNS and BROOCHES – Australian Army Nursing from Boer War to Gulf War By Jan Bassett – Oxford Uni Press 1992
HEBREW, ISRAELITE, JEW – history of the Jews in WA by David Mossenson UWA 1990
ITALIAN ROOTS IN AUSTRALIAN SOIL – Italian Migration to WA by Joseph Gentilli 1983
LEGAL EXCECUTIONS IN WA by Brian Purdue - Foundation press 1993
MY WAY - 50years in WA Education by W H (Bill) Rourke1980
POLICING OUR STATE history of the WA Police Force by AR Pashley - 2000
READY AYE READY –The History of the Volunteer Fire Brigade Movement in WA By Kenneth A Wood 1989
THE BREWERIES OF AUSTRALIA by Keith M Deutsher pub Lothian Books 1999
THE BICYCLE AND THE BUSH by Jim Fitzpatrick –Oxford Uni Press 1980
TIME GENTLEMAN history of Hotel Industry in WA by Caroline de Mori pub abt 1986
THE GOLDEN RULE the history & discovery of the Telfer Gold Mine by Bob Sheppard 2002
THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN WA by D F Bourke 1979
WAR & PEACE IN WA – social & political impact of WW1 – Bobbie Oliver UWA 1995
WHEELS OF PROGRESS history of Road Transport Industry in WA by Dennis Hancock 1979
BOULDER BOOKS
A CENTURY OF LIVING & LEARNING Boulder School by Tess Thomson 1997
GIRL FROM GOLDEN GATE by Shirley Ingram -Access press
THE GOLDEN MILE by Geoffrey Blainey - Allen & Unwin 1993
THE MILE THAT MIDAS TOUCHED by Gavin Casey & Ted Mayman Rigby Press 1964
KALGOORLIE BOOKS
A LOST GLITTER by Michel Best 1986
KALGOORLIE CALEDONIA SOCIETY CENTENARY 1896-1995 by A D Willis
KALGOORLIE TRADES HALL CENTENARY ISSUE Labour History No 15 by Fox, Gill & Layman
KANGAS KALGOORLIE CITY FOOTBALL CLUB by John Terrell 1998
MINES ROVERS FOOTBALL CLUB 1899 -1998
NEVER A DULL MOMENT by Charles, Nancy & Ron Manners Hesperian Press 2002
St MARY’s ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Kalgoorlie Boulder by Harry Argus
THE CHAMBER OF COMERCE 100 years Kalgoorlie Boulder by Pat Leighton
THE HANNANS CLUB The first 100 years by Norma King pub 1996
THE HISTORY OF KALGOORLIE PRIMARY SCHOOL by Laurel Henderson 1996
THE HOME FIRES by Anthony Splivalo Fremantle Arts Press 1982 part race riots in Kalgoorlie and Boulder
THE MILE THAT MIDUS TOUCHED by Gavin Casey & Ted Mayman Rigby Press 1964
VIEW FROM KALGOORLIE by Ted Mayman – Angus & Robertson 1968
KANOWNA
KURNALPI
LAWLERS
LEONORA
SOUTHERN CROSS
WOODLINES BOOKS
TIMBER FOR GOLD – life on the goldfields woodlines by Bill Bunbury Freo Arts 1997
WOODLINE – by L R M Hunter 1976YILGARN VENTURES by Alan Cameron 1986MULLOCK MULGA & MEMORIES - tales of Gwalia & Leonora Kennedy Williams LAWLERS - 100 year of the East Murchison by Lyn Hatch – Plutonic Mining Co 1995 THEY CALLED KURNALPI HOME - Cable and Lardner families in Western Australia originally written by Douglas Cable -compiled and edited by Helen Hill and Terry McArthur. BELOVED TEACHER by Keith Murray 1995