"the horses are hell west and crooked - it'll take a week to muster them." 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.