Add to ORKGAlluvial gold discovered on the Palmer River sparked off a tremendous population movement from 1873 to an area which initially had no existing infrastructure. Unprecedented as this was, it was further complicated by the arrival of Chinese, who by 1877 made up 90 percent of the total population of 19,500. This paper is a brief history of the Palmer Gold Field
In the canyon where the Fraser River flows through the Cascade mountains, migrating salmon supporte...
Alluvial mining for gold was from fi rst to last the almost sole cause of attraction for Chinese im...
[Extract] In the wake of the first great rush to California, however, as Mark Twain himself later ac...
The series of gold rushes to the Palmer River in remote northern Queensland from 1873 were significa...
The series of gold rushes to the Palmer River in remote northern Queensland from 1873 attracted a la...
Gold on the Palmer River and the series of rushes which resulted from 1873 attracted a large influx ...
This study comprises six chapters of varying length, dealing with six separate aspects of the Palmer...
Map of the Palmer River region shows towns, mountains, rivers, hotels, and camps and local industry...
The search for gold is the single most dramatic event of British Columbia’s early history. Although ...
© 1953 D. F. MackayThis thesis pretends to be nothing more than a case-history of a relatively minor...
Mining frontiers have rarely attracted the attention of geographers because of the transitory nature...
The first reports of gold being found in the vicinity of the Waiorongomai Stream were made in early ...
The first arrivals were indentured labourers, imported to Australia between 1847-53 when the colonia...
looked very bright. The hardest of the pioneering days were over, closer settlement was taking place...
In the goldfields of Victoria in the mid-1850s, the Melbourne Age commented that Māori ‘have worked ...
In the canyon where the Fraser River flows through the Cascade mountains, migrating salmon supporte...
Alluvial mining for gold was from fi rst to last the almost sole cause of attraction for Chinese im...
[Extract] In the wake of the first great rush to California, however, as Mark Twain himself later ac...
The series of gold rushes to the Palmer River in remote northern Queensland from 1873 were significa...
The series of gold rushes to the Palmer River in remote northern Queensland from 1873 attracted a la...
Gold on the Palmer River and the series of rushes which resulted from 1873 attracted a large influx ...
This study comprises six chapters of varying length, dealing with six separate aspects of the Palmer...
Map of the Palmer River region shows towns, mountains, rivers, hotels, and camps and local industry...
The search for gold is the single most dramatic event of British Columbia’s early history. Although ...
© 1953 D. F. MackayThis thesis pretends to be nothing more than a case-history of a relatively minor...
Mining frontiers have rarely attracted the attention of geographers because of the transitory nature...
The first reports of gold being found in the vicinity of the Waiorongomai Stream were made in early ...
The first arrivals were indentured labourers, imported to Australia between 1847-53 when the colonia...
looked very bright. The hardest of the pioneering days were over, closer settlement was taking place...
In the goldfields of Victoria in the mid-1850s, the Melbourne Age commented that Māori ‘have worked ...
In the canyon where the Fraser River flows through the Cascade mountains, migrating salmon supporte...
Alluvial mining for gold was from fi rst to last the almost sole cause of attraction for Chinese im...
[Extract] In the wake of the first great rush to California, however, as Mark Twain himself later ac...