Bang-em-all. Bush life, and death, on the Gascoyne
Bangemall and the Thomas River Police Station
by Peter J Bridge, with Gail Dreezens
ISBN 978-0-85905-512-3, (2013, New), A4, Illustd., 260 pp, 710 grams
$50.00* + POST
Bangemall, a Gascoyne mining village, 290 km ENE of Carnarvon, near Mt Augustus, cut a swathe through WA history in the 1890s.
Lonely graves, lost gold mines, death by thirst, suicide and native attack. Cattle and gold, natives, cops and crooks, prospectors and gold, in an eye opening collection of details of a forgotten mining town and region.