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Bibliography of Western Australian History

Historical resources for Western Australian History

Pamela Statham Drew has compiled the following list of Books and Articles relating to the History of Western Australia.

If you know of any books or articles that could be added to the list please contact Pamela at nickdrew@bigpond.com

1890's and Gold

Author	Book Title	Published by
Ashwin, A	Gold to Grass	Hesperian Press, 2002
Basedow, Herbert	Narrative of an Expedition of Exploration in North-Western Australia	Hesperian Press, 1918
Bell, Max D	Paddy Baker – Picture Show Man	Hesperian Press, 2011
Bentley, Molly	Thomas Edwards of Beverley: Emigrant, Policeman, Settler	Hesperian Press, 1985
Bianchi, Phil & Ray Tovey	Lakewood Woodline, 1937 – 1964	Hesperian Press, 2007
Bianchi, Phil, Bridge, Peter, J & Ray Tovey	Early Woodlines of the Goldfields - The untold story of the Woodlines to World War II	Hesperian Press
Blainey, G	The Golden Mile	T.Allen & Unwin, 1993
Bligh, A.C.V.	The Golden Quest: “Roaring days of the West Australian Gold Rushes and Life in the Pearling Industry”	Hesperian Press, 1984 [1958]
Bojesen, F.W.	Small Scale Underground Mining For Prospectors, Tributors and Mine Owners	Hesperian Press, 2003
Bridge, Peter J	Alphabetical Index to the 1954 “List of Cancelled Gold Mining Leases Which Have Produced Gold”	Hesperian Press, 1972
Bridge, Peter J. , Murray, Ian, Dreezens, Gail & Moya Sharp	All Gold. The Death of Stephen Grace	Hesperian Press, 2007
Bridge, Peter J., Holyday, C.,& A. Teague (eds)	The Battler – John Crawford Morrison	Hesperian Press, 2008
Bridge, Peter, J & Ian Murray	For Those Who Remembered Bob True, A History of Whitfords Reward, Gregory Hills	Hesperian Press, 2007
Bridge, Peter, J & Sheryl Milentis	The Finest Gold fields in the World. Robert Austin’s 1854 Expedition to the Murchison	Hesperian Press, 2009
Bridge, Peter, J (ed)	Dollypot	Hesperian Press, 1987
Bridge, Peter, J and Angela Teague (eds)	Early Days of Yilgarn District	Hesperian Press, 2008
Bridge, Peter, J, Murray, I. & V. Connelly	The Connelly Story	Hesperian Press (n.d.)
Bridge, Peter, J.	The Little Wonder Gold Mine	Hesperian Press, 2008
Bridge, Peter, J.	Mineral and Locality Index to the Publications of the W.A. Government Chemical Laboratories 1922-1970	Hesperian Press, 1971-72
Bridge, Peter, J. & Gail Dreezens	The Wanderings of Dido – E A Church	Hesperian Press, 2007
Bridge, Peter, J. & Graham Gath	William White, Convict 9348, Discoverer of the Eastern Goldfields	Hesperian Press, 2008
Bridge, Peter, J. (ed)	Paddy the Flat: The life of Patrick Leahey Australian hero, prospector, publican, and fighter for Digger rights	Hesperian Press, 2010
Bridge, Peter, J. (ed)	On Gold!	Hesperian Press, 1993
Bridge, Peter, J., Murray, Ian & Maureen Causer	John Dunn and the Wealth of Nations	Hesperian Press, 2010
Bridge, Peter, Sharp, Moya and Susan Bennett	Bruisers in the Bush	Hesperian Press, 2010
Bull, Margaret	White Feather	Hesperian Press, 1987 [1981]
Burdett, F. D.	The Odyssey of a Digger	Hesperian Press, 2004 [1936]
Calvert, A.F.	My Fourth Tour in W.A.	Hesperian Press, 1989 [1897]
Cammilleri, F.W.P.	Chasing the Weight, 1886-1912	Hesperian Press, 1986
Carnegie, D.W.	Spinifex and Sand	Facsimile edition Hesperian Press 1982
Cash, Sam	Loaming For Gold	Hesperian Press, 2008
Clemenson, Alice Kathleen	William Ford and Coolgardie	Hesperian Press, 1988
Coghlan, T.A.	Labour and Industry in Australia	London, 1918 Vol.4
Colebatch, Hal	The Magnificent Miner - Claude De Bernales	Hesperian Press, 1996
Cooper, H.	One Man’s Gold	Hesperian Press, 1934
Crowley, F. (Ed.)	A New History of Australia	Melbourne 1974, Ch 7
Durack, Mary	Kings in Grass Castles	Corgi Books 1959
Garnsey, Mrs. Arthur H.	Scarlet Pillows – an Australian nurse’s tale of long ago	Hesperian Press, 2009
Gaston, Albert	Coolgardie Gold	Facsimile edition Hesperian Press 1984
Gibb Maitland, A.	The Gold Deposits of Western Australia	Hesperian Press, 2009 [1919]
Glover, John & Jenny Bevan	The Forgotten Explorers: - pioneer geologists of Western Australia, 1826 – 1926	Hesperian Press, 2010
Hadah	Esther Austin: Adventures on the Goldfields	Hesperian Press, 2007 [1899]
Hall, A.R.	The London Capital Market & Australia	Canberra, 1963
Hallberg, J.	Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Leonora-Laverton Area, North Eastern Yilgarn Block, Western Australia	Hesperian Press, 1985
Harris, Henry	Reminiscences of by-gone Menzies by the Old Fossicker & On the Northern Fields	Hesperian Press, 2009 [1907-08, 1935-36]
Hayward, Andree	Along the Road to Cue and Other Verses	Hesperian Press, 2007
Heydon, P.R.	Nannine by the Lake	Hesperian Press, 1990
Heydon, P.R.	Meekatharra - End of the Earth	Hesperian Press, 1994
Heydon, P.R.	Gold at Peak Hill	Hesperian Press, 1991
Heydon, P.R.	Wiluna - edge of the desert	Hesperian Press, 1996
Hooper, J.	Youanmi: A History of Murchison Gold	Hesperian Press, 1987
Jacobson, Mark I., Mark Andrew C. & Benjamin A.Grguric	Guidebook to the Pegmatites of Western Australia	Hesperian Press, 2007
King, Norma	The Daughters of Midas	Hesperian Press, 1988
King, Norma	Then They Called Me Norma	Hesperian Press, 2003
Lambden Owen, W.	Cossack Gold	Hesperian Press, 1984 (1933)
Macgeorge, A.J.	Where Fortunes Lay	Hesperian Press, 1993
McDonald, G. J. C.	Beyond Boundary Fences	Hesperian Press, 1996
McDonald, Rhonda	Gold in the Gascoyne	Hesperian Press, 2000 [1985]
Meiklejohn, John	Gold Getting Days	Hesperian Press, 2005
Menzies, L.R.	A Gold Seeker’s Odyssey	Hesperian Press, 2004 [1937]
Mines Department of WA	List of Cancelled Gold Mining Leases which have produced Gold (1954)	Hesperian Press, 2008 [1954]
Moore, Amy	Where is Brown Hill?	Hesperian Press, 1989
Neville, A.O.	Golden Land of Silence - A Tale of the Kimberleys	Hesperian Press, 2010
Nicholas, William	The Coolgardie Goldfields	Hesperian Press, 2007 [1895]
O’Brien, James	Hoovers Millions and how he made them	Hesperian Press, 2005 [1932]
Palmer, Alex	The Old Coach Roads to Cue and Beyond	Hesperian Press, 1993
Palmer, Alex	Fields Gold. A story of the Yalgoo Goldfields	Hesperian Press, 2009
Palmer, Alex	Yalgoo	Hesperian Press, 1990 [1985]
Palmer, Alex	Yerilla	Hesperian Press, 2009 [2002]
Palmer, Alex	Poona W.A. and the seekers of its emeralds	Hesperian Press, 2010
Price, Julius M.	Land of Gold	Hesperian Press, 2010 [1895]
Purdue, Brian	The Gold Stealers	Hesperian Press, 2001
Radcliffe, Raymond	Wealth and Wildcats	Hesperian Press, 2004 [1898]
Raeside, Jules	Golden Days	Hesperian Press, 1996 [1929]
Ralph, Gilbert	Bullfinch and the Yilgarn Goldfield	Hesperian Press, 2007
Reid, Arthur	Those Were The Days	Hesperian Press, 1986 [1933]
Scott, Thomas	Travels among Gold and Cannibals in Western Australia 1870 – 1874	Hesperian Press, 2010
Shann, E.	An Economic History of Australia, 1930	1930, Ch.XIX and XX
Sheppard, Bob	The Golden Rule	Hesperian Press, 2002
Simpson, E.S.	Minerals of Western Australia	Hesperian Press, 1984 [1948-52]
Sligo, N.K.	Mates and Gold	Hesperian Press, 1995 [1980]
Southcombe, M.R.H.	To Call Our Own	Hesperian Press, 1998
Stannage, C.T. (Ed.)	A New History of Western Australia	UWAP 1981
Talbot, Len	Exploring the Golden West – H.W.B. Talbot	Hesperian Press, 2008
Testa, Angie and Bill Decarli	A Dead Mans Dream – Lasseter’s Reef Found	Hesperian Press, 2005
Tregurtha, J.E.	The Leaves from a Prospectors Diary	Hesperian Press, 1996
Vivienne, May	Travels in Western Australia	Hesperian Press, 1993 [1901]
Vogan, A.J.	Through Aurumalia	Hesperian Press, 2009 [1896]
Walker, Marshall	The Pump	Hesperian Press, 2003
Wattone, M.	Way to the Gold: A Centennial Account of the Western Australian Goldfields 1892 - 1992	Contraland Press WA 1992
Whittington, V.	Gold and Typhoid	UWAP 1988 esp ch 1 & 6
Wood, Roma	The Young Soldier from the Goldfields	Hesperian Press, 1995

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