The Wild Days of the Palmer River Gold Rush

"What with cannibal blacks‚ pig−tailed Chinamen in thousands‚ lynch−law hangings‚ gambling dens‚ shanty towns‚ murders‚ grog−shops and Italian opera singers‚ the Palmer River Goldfields − properly spun out − should provide enough television material for general exhibition for the next ten years. This one book‚ River of Gold‚ could easily be used as the jumping−off ground for the lot. Read it with Hector Holthouse; he will be your guide; he has loved every minute of it‚ and so will you!"

Out of the Kimberley Goldrush of 1886 came stories of hard men in a hostile land. Some grew into legends, larger than life, but now almost completely forgotten. 134pp.

John Long

Palaeontologist and Head of Science at the Museum Victoria, Long has spent 20 years working the Gogo fish fossil sites. In this story Long chronicles the history of the sites and takes the reader on a journey of adventure, endeavour and intrigue. 

The story of the timber cutters who supplied timber for the goldmines

Tragedy Track has been republished to mark a milestone in one of Australia's greatest mining success stories - 1,000,000 ounces of gold from the Granites mine on the Tanami Track. The story covers the human history of men on the harsh Tanami goldfield prior to 1932. A story of struggle, grief and heartbreak by men looking for gold that was difficult to find in the primative conditions almost 800 kilometres from the nearest town, Alice Springs. S/c. 134pp. B&W photos. Index.

Raymond Radclyffe. Travels and researches in the goldfields of Western Australia and New Zealand. Astute and cynically amusing observations. 120pp.

A. Macgeorge. This is the personal, first-hand story of an adventurous young man's search for fortune in the vast, dry interior of Australia in the 1890s. 174pp.