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In this remarkable autobiographical account, Tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stationhand in the toughest country in Australia and later on as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern Territory before the war. He tells of the endurance of the Aborigines and the many personalities and 'characters' of the day.

Contents:
Introduction
1. From suitcase to swag
2. Lake Nash, Northern Territory
3. Life on a cattle station
4. The laws of droving
5. Droving from Strathfield to Glenormiston
6. Mustering on a Kidman station
7. Stock camp cook at Brunette Downs
8. Banka Banka and Barrow Creek races
9. Head stockman at Wave Hill for Vesteys
10. Telegraph lines and camels
11. Tragedies in the outback
12. Outstations of Victoria River Downs
13. Dangers of the bronco yard
14. Managing Bullita Station
15. Brumby running at Hooker's Creek
16. The breaker from the Territory
17. Brock’s Creek races
18. The pack-horse mail to Limbunya
19. buffalo shooting on the coastal plains
20. Kapalga and the Caledon Bay massacre
21. Another spearing, and more misadventures
22. Prospecting in Arnhem Land
23. Crocodile hunting with harpoon and gun
24. Time belong ...
Maps of the northern region
Review:
A real-life story of the pioneering days of the Top End that out-adventures anything fiction writers could hope to produce. - The West Australian