Cossack Gold, The Chronicles of an Early Goldfields Warden. This item is unavailable.Cossack Gold, The Chronicles of an Early Goldfields Warden

1st ed., octavo, pp. xii, 216, (27, Index and adverts), b&w frontis, map, original orange cloth boards. A long newspaper obituary of Lambden Owen, from March 19 1946, is pasted in to the rear endpapers. Lacks front free endpaper. Spine canted. Scattered light foxing. Very good condition. Reminiscences of life in the North-West of Western Australia. From 1889 on, William Lambden Owen (1861 - 1946) was at various times Warden of the Pilbarra goldfield, Warden of North Coolgardie Goldfield, and Warden of Kalgoorlie, before returning to and spending many years working in the north-west. 'Cossack Gold' describes his years in the North-West and particularly the Pilbara.