Facsimile edition, with additions to introductory pages. "John Marshall, adventurer, journalist, public figure and Digger's leader on the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie goldfield wrote of the early days on the fields in Battling For Gold. It remains the best collection of goldfields' stories ever published and relates details of McCann's nugget, the great Coolgardie fire, the Londonderry golden hole, the goldfield's riots, danger, diseases, death and gold, gold, gold. These stirring incidents of goldfields life will live on forever in Australian history" (publisher's blurb.)