The Australian Outback and the American Wild West were two of the last frontiers in the territorial conquest and expansions of the 19th century. These frontier territories were wild, lawless and extremely colourful. This book explores these frontiers!
In this volume of The Wild West, Drake focuses on the famous pastoral explorers, drovers and trail drivers; the poddy-dodgers, horse-thieves and rustlers; the wars of the land grabbers with Australian Aborigines and American Indians; the clashes of lawless western entrepreneurs with the laws of the big cities in the east; the colourful females who ventured out into a man's world and made their names, the transport by puffing billies and the famous stage coach lines, and buckjumpers, roughriders and rodeos in Australia and the USA.
