Through the eyes of the old timers

[TCoast]

Morning All,
I am pretty new (a few months) to prospecting and detecting but am totally hooked. Familiar story for all I'm sure!
Not sure if this topic is in the right place, but I have been looking for books and other resources which give first hand accounts of the search for gold by the old timers.
For example I was reading Reminiscences of Fryerstown last night and there were some interesting anecdotes in there. I'm really after any first hand accounts of how the old blokes searched and operated - either written by them or by people who watched them or talked to them. Trying to understand what I'm seeing out in the bush a bit better.
I am in Vic and mostly head up to the GT.
Anyway, any thoughts appreciated.
Good luck out there...
T

 

[Jaros]

Welcome TCoast. Good luck.

 

[OzzieAu]

Have a read through this thread.... theres 4 pages, but youll find some interesting titles in there to whet your appetite and to search out.
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=25103&p=4

 

[TCoast]

Thanks Jaros!
OzzieAu - cheers for that, some interesting titles in there. I will check a few out.

 

[Graemeb54]

Mates and gold, great read

The greatest of the Western Australian 1890s gold rush reminiscences.
Mates and Gold tells of bush life in the Western Australian desert, dangerous journeys and lonely deaths by typhoid, thirst, murder, spearing and retributional massacre. Vast new goldfields, gold won - and lost. Of bush mates and memories of a life long past.
Mates and Gold is an insight into the fortitude and humour with which the early prospectors faced the harshness of the goldfields. It is one of the few books on the great 1890s goldrush written by one of the original prospectors.
This is a great read.

 

[XIV]

The new chum.
River of gold.
Both very good

 

[TCoast]

Thanks graemeb and XIV. Those sound like the sort of reads I'm after - interesting history and hopefully a few snippets explaining how they went about searching and processing...