Hector Holthouse

The wild days of the Palmer River Gold Rush: "What with cannibal blacks, pig-tailed Chinamen in thousands, lynch-law hangings, gambling dens, shanty towns, murders, grog-shops and Italian opera singers, the Palmer River Goldfields—properly spun out—should provide enough television material for general exhibition for the next ten years. This one book, River of Gold, could easily be used as the jumping-off...