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Golden Journeys
Contemporary reports of our early gold discoveries of NSW and following the day-to-day travels of three journalists of the 1850s, the everyday living and working conditions of the earliest miners on the Western Goldfields of NSW are there in detail. The area, from Ophir, along the Turon, the Meroo, the Macquarie and the Cudgegong rivers, and creeks such as the Tambaroora, covers an extensive area of hundreds of goldfields. One sees these goldfields through their wiser eyes and we can read the wonderful stories of discoveries both big and little. We also learn of the 'dud fields'. AND the floods. For modern fossickers the geology of the district is described in detail and includes maps. These are contemporary writings and as such are history at its best. Valuable also as a reference for the social researcher and the prospector as well as the family historian. It is a fascinating depiction of those early years, with one reading the same reports that their ancestors read and which then encouraged them to make their own Golden Journeys.
