The third in a trilogy tracing the maturing of an Australian youth who works on an outback cattle station. The tedium of ranch life goes on through long days of drought, until rain comes at last and gives the boy a chance to repay earlier kindness when he saves one rancher from a runaway team, and another who is injured
Analysis
Australian
Notes
Sequel to "By the sandhills of Yamboorah" and "The roan colt of Yamboorah"