Battling for Gold

Battling for Gold, Or, Stirring Incidents of Goldfields Life in West Australia 

I OFFER no apology for this little book — and none I hope
will be needed. — No effort has been made, so far,
to write the early history of the Eastern Goldfields of
Western Australia, or even to tell the more stirring
incidents which have taken place — records of which
shall, I believe, be read with interest by future generations.

I have made no attempt to overdraw these lights
and shadows of goldfields life, and only facts have, so
far as my knowledge goes, been given.

I am indebted to the Editor of The Wide
World Magazine for permission to. republish some
of the more stirring and personal of these sketches as
they first appeared in the columns of that popular and
widely read Journal.

With all their faults and imperfections 1 send them
into the world, and consign them to the tender mercies
of their friends and the serrated teeth of their critics.

JOHN MARSHALL.
February 1903

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