AustLit

Author's Introduction: 'Boss Drover' is the story of a man who is still alive as this is written. Matt Savage, peerless drover and cattleman, was a great name not so long ago around the campfires of central Australia and the desolate Kimberley region to the north-west. ... I sat down with him in Alice Springs for several weeks, asking questions and taking replies on a tape recorder. ... What I had in the end was not a chronological story of one man's life but a series of anecdotes; tragic, hilarious, and sometimes horrifying.... I have changed some names, and altered events where the original might have upset a few very old men or their relatives. ...what remains is among the most honest accounts ever given of a very tough and brutal era of our history. ..