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.