A Heritage Field Guide
This guide explores the country associated with numerous gold rushes and gold mining ventures from the 1850s right down to the present; land of the golden fleece and the golden grain for squatters, graziers and agriculturalists from the 1820s onward; and land of golden wattles, of late summer's golden grasses - hunting and grain-gathering territory for the Aborigines, for the centuries uncounted before that. Today the western homestead blocks, riverbanks, and towns are splashed in autumn with the gold of poplars and willows brought to the area by early European settlers.
The Central West of NSW still shows its glimpses and vistas of gold. As a modern-day explorer, travelling the easy way, by car, the author likes to trace the journeys of the great explorers Evans and Oxley.
The chapters cover:
- The Road to Bathurst
- Bathurst and District
- To Mudgee and Beyond
- Orange and District
- Wellington, Dubbo and Beyond
- To Cowra and Young
- Parkes, Forbes and Down the Lachlan
- Grenfell, West Wyalong and Temora.
