DIGGERS, CONSTABLES, AND BUSHRANGERS. The New Zealand Gold Rushes as a Frontier Experience, 1852-1876.

A great account of not only New Zealand's gold mining but their own version of the Wild West. In his scholarly and colorful book, Hutchins tells of the Fossickers and Hatters who panned the streams with their tin dishes in hopes of finding paydirt instead of the new chum's gold, and of the bushrangers, swagmen, old lags, ticket-of-leave men and colorful characters who populated the camps. A thoroughly entertaining and well documented account.